What's he saying?įirst of all, let's review the reasons why this is a big deal. So, why don't we assume for now that Bostrom passes the background check and deserves to be taken seriously. The cover quotes approving murmurs from the likes of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Martin Rees and Stuart Russell, co-author of the world's leading AI textbook people thanked in the acknowledgements include Demis Hassabis, the founder and CEO of Google's Deep Mind. He runs the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, where he's also a professor at the philosophy department, he's read a great deal of relevant background, and he knows everyone. So, with apologies for being late getting to the party, here's my two cents.įor people who still haven't heard of it, the book is intended as a serious, hard-headed examination of the risks associated with the likely arrival, in the short- to medium-term future, of machines which are significantly smarter than we are. Superintelligence was published in 2014, and it's already had time to become a cult classic.
The bestseller Superintelligence, and FHI’s work on AI, has changed the global conversation on the future of machine intelligence, helping to stimulate the emergence of a new field of technical research on scalable AI control. Nick is best known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, the simulation argument, artificial intelligence risks, the reversal test, and practical implications of consequentialism.
During his time in London, Bostrom also did some turns on London’s stand-up comedy circuit. There have been more than 100 translations and reprints of his works. His writings have been translated into 24 languages. He has been listed on Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers list twice and he was included on Prospect magazine's World Thinkers list, the youngest person in the top 15 from all fields and the highest-ranked analytic philosopher. Gannon Award (one person selected annually worldwide from the fields of philosophy, mathematics, the arts and other humanities, and the natural sciences). In 2000, he was awarded a PhD in Philosophy from the London School of Economics. He is the author of some 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (Routledge, 2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (ed., OUP, 2008), Human Enhancement (ed., OUP, 2009), and Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (OUP, 2014), a New York Times bestseller.īostrom holds bachelor degrees in artificial intelligence, philosophy, mathematics and logic followed by master’s degrees in philosophy, physics and computational neuroscience. He also directs the Strategic Artificial Intelligence Research Center. Nick Bostrom is Professor at Oxford University, where he is the founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute.
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