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Nick Bostrom
Macrostrategy Research InitiativeFounder and Principal Researcher
🇸🇪 SwedishBorn 1973
Bostrom is a philosopher who helped bring the risks of advanced AI into mainstream debate.[1] His book Superintelligence explores how machines smarter than humans could escape our control.[2] He also developed the simulation argument, which examines whether we might live in a computer simulation.[3]
Career & education
University of Oxford2008-2024
Future of Humanity Institute2005-2024University of Oxford2002-2005
University of Gothenburg
Stockholm University
King's College London
London School of EconomicsWork and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
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Selected contributions
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
A book examining how AI could surpass human intelligence and how its risks might be reduced.
References
- Oxford Martin School — Future Technologyoxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk
Describes the influence of Bostrom’s research on debate about the risks of advanced AI.
- Oxford Martin School — Superintelligenceoxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk
Describes Bostrom’s book and the challenge of controlling machines that exceed human intelligence.
- Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Bostrom’s original published simulation argument.
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