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Nick Bostrom

Best-selling author of over two hundred publications, Professor and founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University

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Nick Bostrom is the best-selling author of “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies” and over two hundred other publications.

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About Nick Bostrom

He is the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute and Professor at Oxford University and also directs the Strategic Artificial Intelligence Research Center.

Nick Bostrom is a best-selling author, speaker and the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute and Professor at Oxford University.

He is the author of New York Times best-selling book “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies” and with his background in physics, computational neuroscience, mathematical logic and philosophy has written two hundred other publications.

Since 2015, he has also directed the Strategic Artificial Intelligence Research Center which is a multidisciplinary research center which enables a set of exceptional mathematicians, philosophers, and scientists to think about the global issues and priorities that effect humanity. He was the cofounder along with David Pearce of the World Transhumanist Association, a nonprofit organization and was also involved in founding the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, a nonprofit virtual think tank.

Nick is the recipient of the Eugene R. Gannon Award and has been twice listed on Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list. He has also been included on the Prospect magazine’s World Thinkers list, the youngest person in the top 15 from all fields and the highest-ranked analytic philosopher. His writings have been translated into twenty four languages and there have been over one hundred translations and reprints of his works.

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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life.

Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World

Bostrom’s previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies changed the global conversation on AI and became a New York Times bestseller. It focused on what might happen if AI development goes wrong. But what if things go right?

Global Catastrophic Risks

A global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale. In human history, wars and plagues have done so on more than one occasion, and misguided ideologies and totalitarian regimes have darkened an entire era or a region. Advances in technology are adding dangers of a new kind. It could happen again.

Anthropic Bias (Studies in Philosophy)

Anthropic Bias explores how to reason when you suspect that your evidence is biased by “observation selection effects”–that is, evidence that has been filtered by the precondition that there be some suitably positioned observer to “have” the evidence. This conundrum–sometimes alluded to as “the anthropic principle,” “self-locating belief,” or “indexical information”–turns out to be a surprisingly perplexing and intellectually stimulating challenge, one abounding with important implications for many areas in science and philosophy.