Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom is a Swedish philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, superintelligence risks, the reversal test, and consequentialism. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics. In 2011, he founded the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, and he is currently the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth10 March 1973
CountrySweden
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.
Are you living in a computer simulation?
Human nature is a work in progress.
Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.
When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.
Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.
The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.
Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.