Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher and the founder and principal researcher at the nonprofit Macrostrategy Research Initiative. He previously served as a professor at Oxford University and was the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute from 2005 until its closure in 2024. He is best known for his work on existential risk, the simulation argument, and the implications of superintelligence, including his 2014 book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies.
“There's three possibilities. One, no civilization can ever create these simulations... Or you are most likely in a simulation”
Source→“Elon Musk popularized simulation theory... The chances that we are in base reality... is one in billions”
Source→“I think that superintelligence, that idea from that book is very, very far away. I don't see any evidence that we're actually marching towards that.”
Source→“The risks in developing superintelligence include the risk of failure to give it the supergoal of philanthropy... We need to be careful about what we wish for from a superintelligence, because we might get it.”
Source→“AI is a general term that goes back 70 years in computer science formally... it's got a lot of baggage, either from science fiction or from Nick Bostrom who wrote about it.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.