AI Safety, Alignment & Existential Risk
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom · 2014 · Oxford University Press
Examines what happens if machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence, and argues for taking the control problem seriously well before it arrives.
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Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom ( BOST-rəm; Swedish: Niklas Boström [ˈnɪ̌kːlas ˈbûːstrœm]; born 10 March 1973) is a philosopher known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, whole brain emulation, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test. He was the founding director of the later defunct Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and has become Principal Researcher at the Macrostrategy Research Initiative. Bostrom is the author of Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy (2002), Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014) and Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World (2024).
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