Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom - Book Review
Review of Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence on the risks of artificial intelligence
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Founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, Professor and Author
Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence, as well as philosophy. He is the most-cited professional philosopher in the world under the age of 50.
He is a Professor at Oxford University, where he heads the Future of Humanity Institute as its founding director. He is the author of some 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (2008), Human Enhancement (2009), and Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014), a New York Times bestseller which helped spark a global conversation about the future of AI. He has also published a series of influential papers, including ones that introduced the simulation argument (2003) and the concept of existential risk (2002).
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See also: Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) - Multidisciplinary research institute at the University of Oxford
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