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Nick Bostrom
Filosofo di Oxford il cui libro Superintelligence (2014) ha presentato l’IA come un rischio esistenziale, oggi sostiene, dalla Macrostrategy Research Initiative, che non costruire mai una superintelligenza sarebbe di per sé una catastrofe.
Ruoli
- 2000 – 2002Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Yale UniversityFonte →
- 2005 – apr 2024Founding Director, Future of Humanity Institute, University of OxfordThe institute was closed by the university on 16 April 2024.Fonte →
- 2008 – 2024Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of OxfordFonte →
- 2024 – oggiFounder and Principal Researcher, Macrostrategy Research InitiativeFonte →
A registro
2026 · Articolo scientifico · 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 all’epoca
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 →
25 mar 2025 · Intervista · 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 all’epoca
Transcribed interview; captures his post-FHI position that risk cuts both ways.
Nick Bostrom: Failure to Develop Superintelligence Would Be a Catastrophe →
27 dic 2024 · Intervista · 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 all’epoca
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 →
2014 · Libro · 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 all’epoca
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".