superintelligence paths dangers strategies

The book painstakingly explicates the philosophical implications of current research in developing a ‘superintelligence’, thereby offering tangible benefits from philosophical speculation while also drawing extensively from contemporary scientific developments. Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies directly challenges these attitudes.

We philosophers wrestle with the exact same problems the Pre-Socratics wrestled with. 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.Except for a patina of twenty-first century modernity, in the form of logic and language, philosophy is exactly the same now as it ever was it has made no progress whatsoever. 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.

Superintelligence paths dangers strategies