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Nick Bostrom

Philosophe d’Oxford dont le livre Superintelligence (2014) a présenté l’IA comme un risque existentiel, il soutient aujourd’hui, depuis la Macrostrategy Research Initiative, que ne jamais construire de superintelligence serait en soi une catastrophe.

Fonctions

  1. 2000 – 2002Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Yale UniversitySource →
  2. 2005 – avr. 2024Founding Director, Future of Humanity Institute, University of OxfordThe institute was closed by the university on 16 April 2024.Source →
  3. 2008 – 2024Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of OxfordSource →
  4. 2024 – aujourd’huiFounder and Principal Researcher, Macrostrategy Research InitiativeSource →

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  1. 2026 · Article scientifique · nickbostrom.com (working paper)

    Developing superintelligence is not like playing Russian roulette; it is more like undergoing risky surgery for a condition that will otherwise prove fatal.

    Founder and Principal Researcher, Macrostrategy Research Initiative à l’époque

    Working paper v1.0, circulating by February 2026; argues for "swift to harbor, slow to berth" and warns that poorly implemented pauses could do more harm than good.

    Optimal Timing for Superintelligence: Mundane Considerations for Existing People →

  2. 25 mars 2025 · Entretien · Science, Technology & the Future (Adam Ford)

    Developing superintelligence is associated with significant existential risks. … It would be in itself an existential catastrophe if we forever failed to develop superintelligence.

    Founder and Principal Researcher, Macrostrategy Research Initiative à l’époque

    Transcribed interview; captures his post-FHI position that risk cuts both ways.

    Nick Bostrom: Failure to Develop Superintelligence Would Be a Catastrophe →

  3. 27 déc. 2024 · Entretien · American Enterprise Institute

    both extremely good and extremely bad outcomes are possible, and we are a bit in the dark.

    Founder and Principal Researcher, Macrostrategy Research Initiative à l’époque

    On the publication of Deep Utopia; he added that an intelligence explosion "next year" cannot be ruled out.

    Life in an AI Utopia: A Quick Q&A With Futurist and Philosopher Nick Bostrom →

  4. 2014 · Livre · Oxford University Press

    Superintelligence is a challenge for which we are not ready now and will not be ready for a long time

    Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford à l’époque

    Quoted verbatim in Reason's September 2014 review of the book; he also calls it "the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced".

    Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies →