BiografÃa / Speaker Info
Professor Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher and scholar with expertise in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic and artificial intelligence, as well as philosophy. He is a professor at Oxford University, where he leads the Future of Humanity Institute as its founding director. (The FHI is a multidisciplinary university research center; it also houses the Center for the Governance of Artificial Intelligence and teams working on AI safety, biosecurity, macrostrategy, and various other technological or fundamental issues.)
Professor Nick Bostrom 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 that helped start a global conversation on artificial intelligence. Bostrom's widely influential work, which cuts across philosophy, science, ethics and technology, has illuminated the links between our present actions and long-term global outcomes, shedding new light on the human condition.
Nick Bostrom received a Eugene R. Gannon Award and has twice been included in Foreign Policy's list of the top 100 global thinkers. He was included in Prospect's World Thinkers list, the youngest person in the top 15. His writings have been translated into 28 languages and there have been more than 100 translations and reprints of his works.
