About
Nick Bostrom is a Swedish philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test.
He is a founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University.
Bostrom is the author of over 200 publications, and he is best known for a New York Times bestseller Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014).
Superintelligence was highly recommended both by Elon Musk and Bill Gates and considered to be a must-read for any AI enthusiast.
He discusses the future of humanity and long-term outcomes of our co-existence with Artificial Intellect as well as advocates the creation of Ethical committees to prevent accidental destruction of a human kind by an intelligence explosion.