Nick Bostrom is one of the cleverest people in the world. As a graduate student he dabbled in stand-up comedy on the London circuit, but he has since reconnected with the doom and gloom of his Swedish roots. He is a repeat TED speaker and has done more than 2,000 interviews with television, radio, and print media. His writings have been translated into 28 languages, and there have been more than 100 translations and reprints of his works. He was included on Prospect's World Thinkers list, the youngest person in the top 15. Gannon Award, and has been listed on Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers list twice. Bostrom's widely influential work, which traverses philosophy, science, ethics, and technology, has illuminated the links between our present actions and long-term global outcomes, thereby casting a new light on the human condition. (The FHI is a multidisciplinary university research center it is also home to the Center for the Governance of Artificial Intelligence and to teams working on AI safety, biosecurity, macrostrategy, and various other technology or foundational questions.) 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 artificial intelligence. He is Professor at Oxford University, where he leads the Future of Humanity Institute as its founding director. Nick Bostrom is Swedish-born philosopher and polymath with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence, as well as philosophy. What sparrows can do to live with an owl and how that relates to our approach to AI How we’d keep ourselves busy in such a utopian world Why superintelligence would make all human work obsolete How we can keep superintelligence from turning against us

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