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Nick Bostrom Ph.D. Oxford Future of Humanity Institute . Professor Bostrom co-founded the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies in 2005 and serves as Chair of its Board of Directors. Professor Bostrom also co-founded the Humanity Plus (Humanity Plus) in 1998 and currently serves on its Board of Directors as founding chair. Professor Bostrom is a frequent spokesperson and commentator in the media, and has consulted for the President’s Council on Bioethics (USA), the Central Intelligence Agency (USA), the European Commission, and the European Group on Ethics (Brussels), among many groups. Dr. Bostrom has a background in cosmology, computational neuroscience, mathematical logic, philosophy, and artificial intelligence, and his research addresses the philosophy of science, probability theory, and the ethical and strategic implications of emerging and future technologies. He is author of the book Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy (Routledge, New York, 2002), and has co-edited the book Global Catastrophic Risks (Oxford University Press, 2008) with Milan Cirkovic, and Human Enhancement (Oxford University Press, 2009) with Julian Savulescu.
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Books
Human Enhancement by Edited by Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom (2009)
Global Catastrophic Risks by eds. Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic (2008)
Anthropic Bias: Observation Selections Effects in Science and Philosophy by Nick Bostrom (2002)
Articles
"Human Enhancement Ethics: The State of the Debate" Nick Bostrom and Julian Savulescu's Introduction to Human Enhancement (2009)
Sep 11, 2009
"When Will Computers Be Smarter Than Us?" Forbes
Jun 24, 2009
"American Spectator reviews Catastrophic Risks" Ethical Technology
May 13, 2009
"Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing" Technology Review
Apr 27, 2008
"The Future of Humanity" New Waves in Philosophy of Technology , eds. Jan-Kyrre Berg Olsen and Evan Selinger (Palgrave McMillan, 2007)
Mar 6, 2008
"Smart Policy: Cognitive Enhancement in the Public Interest" Rathenau Institute in collaboration with the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology: 2007
Feb 26, 2008
"Origins and Theory of the World Transhumanist Association" Cronopis
Dec 26, 2007
"The dark side of the Simulation Argument" Sentient Developments
Aug 16, 2007
"INTERVIEW - Nick Bostrom on the future, transhumanism and the end of the world" SF Diplomat
Jan 22, 2007
"Cognitive Enhancement: A Review of Technology" EU ENHANCE Project Publication
Jan 15, 2007
"Converging Cognitive Enhancements" and Anders Sandberg. in Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1093: 201–227 (2006).
Dec 12, 2006
"Dignity and Enhancement" Commissioned for The President’s Council on Bioethics
Nov 25, 2006
"Cognitive Enhancement: Methods, Ethics, Regulatory Challenges" with Anders Sandberg
Oct 18, 2006
"Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up" Forthcoming in Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity , eds. Bert Gordijn and Ruth Chadwick
Oct 17, 2006
"Technological Revolutions: Ethics and Policy in the Dark" preprint
Oct 16, 2006
"Nanoethics and Technological Revolutions: A Precis" KurzweilAI.net
May 7, 2006
"Dinosaurs, dodos, humans?" Global Agenda
Feb 28, 2006
"Recent Developments In The Ethics, Science, And Politics Of Life Extension" in Death And Anti-Death, Volume 3
Feb 17, 2006
"The Future Of Human Evolution" Death And Anti-Death, Volume 2
Feb 17, 2006
"Welcome to a world of exponential change" Better Humans? The politics of human enhancement and life extension. Demos. London, UK. 2006. (Chapter 3)
Feb 9, 2006
"Letter from Utopia" nickbostrom.com
Dec 31, 2005
"Quantity of Experience: Brain-Duplication and Degrees of Consciousness" Minds and Machines, forthcoming
Dec 25, 2005
"Is a Doomsday Catastrophe Likely?" Nature 438, 754
Dec 8, 2005
"In Defense of Posthuman Dignity" Bioethics
Sep 5, 2005
"A Proactive Response to the Tsunami Disaster" BetterHumans
Jan 19, 2005
"The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant" Journal of Medical Ethics, 31(5): 273-277
Nov 9, 2004
"Human Genetic Enhancements: A Transhumanist Perspective" Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 493-506.
Dec 7, 2003
"Transhumanist Values" Ethical Issues for the 21st Century, ed. Frederick Adams, Philosophical Documentation Center Press, 2003
Sep 11, 2003
"Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development" Utilitas Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 308-314
Mar 17, 2003
"The Doomsday Argument Adam & Eve, UN++, and Quantum Joe" Synthese
Jun 30, 2001
"How Long Before Superintelligence?" Journal of Future Studies vol. 2
Jul 30, 1998
Upcoming Appearances
Bostrom, de Grey & Vita-More @ Humanity+ UK 2010 (London, UK - 10/04/24) Recent Multimedia
Is the Singularity Near?
The Singularity Film
The Posthuman Possibility Space
Video Stream from the Future of Humanity Institute
The Ethics of Artificial Minds
Bostrom on H+, the future and x-risks
Bostrom on X-Risks and Posthumanity
Gender, Space and Extinction
Nick on Cognitive Enhancement
Nick, Aubrey and Anders on Immortality News
List of “Top 100 Global Thinkers” includes two from IEET Nick and Aubrey featured in Time Magazine Global Spiral Publishes Ten Defenses of Transhumanism Bostrom and Savulescu Issue “Human Enhancement” Collection Nick, Aubrey and Julian Savulescu argue for Longevity Dividend Update on Humanity+ Board Elections Bostrom, de Grey, Rushkoff answer Edge’s Big Question for 2009 Transhumanism in Flux, a new high profile science magazine Whole Brain Emulation Roadmap Now Available from FHI Nick and Milan on anthropic principle in new collection Bostrom appointed full professor at Oxford Some Pics from the Catastrophic Risk Conference at Oxford Bostrom and H+ profiled in CNN President’s Council on Bioethics Publishes Bostrom on Posthuman Dignity $25,000 “Matching Grant” Drive for WTA Thousands of Evo Art Portraits of Hughes and Bostrom Hughes and Bostrom profiled in German review of H+ History Bostrom, Corwin in BBC4’s Visions of the Future Hughes, Bostrom Respond to Agar in Hastings Center Report Bostrom talk on X-Risk and AI transcribed Tierney profiles Bostrom in NYT Hughes and Bostrom quoted in WaPo on sports doping Bostrom on ubiquitous surveillance H+ in the context of the Evolution v. Religion Debate IEET Fellows Interviewed for RU Sirius’ New Book The Economist looks ahead to life extension with the transhumanists Bostrom starts rationality/bias blog at FHI Hughes, Bostrom, de Grey & Campa in Italian documentary Pursuing the Longevity Dividend: Scientific Goals for an Aging World Transvision & Bostrom covered in Nature Bostrom quoted on super-human AI by CNN CNN interviews Nick Bostrom Meme Therapy interviews Nick Bostrom Video of Nick Bostrom on Cognitive Enhancement The EU’s ENHANCE Project Demos’s book on the politics of human enhancement Bostrom, Hughes and Prisco address Congress on Technology and Europe, Madrid, October 6, 2005 Bostrom to Head New James Martin 21st Century School Past Appearances
Nick Bostrom on “The State of the Enhancement Debate” (Philadelphia, PA USA - 09/12/02) Bostrom @ Converging Tech and Philosophy (Enschede, The Netherlands - 09/07/08 - 10) Cognitive Enhancement Workshop and Symposium` (Oxford University, Oxford, UK - 09/06/27 - 28) Bostrom on Infinite Worlds (NYU, NYC, NY USA - 09/06/13) Bostrom, Warwick, BSG Cast on Battlestar Galactica: Cyborgs on the Horizon (92nd Street Y, NYC, NY USA - 09/06/12) Bostrom on “Transhumanism: A Critical Look” (Oxford University, Oxford, UK - 09/05/18) Bostrom on “Uncertainty, Lags, and Nonlinearity: Challenges to Governance in a Turbulent World” (Oxford University, Oxford, UK - 09/05/07) Nick on Enhancing the Brain ( - 08/10/13) Hughes, Bostrom, Treder, Cirkovic @ Global Catastrophic Risks Conference (Oxford University, Oxford, UK - 08/07/17 - 20) Bostrom on Human Enhancement, Status Quo Bias, and the Reversal Test (Oxford, UK - 07/11/06) Bostrom @ Women’s Forum (Deauville, France - 07/10/11 - 13) Hughes, de Grey, Bostrom and more @ Transvision 2007 (Chicago, IL USA - 07/07/24 - 26) Securing the Longevity Dividend: Building the Campaign for Anti-Aging Science (Chicago, Illinois - 07/07/23) Hughes, Bostrom @ Progressive Bioethics Summit (Washington D.C. - 07/07/12 - 13) Whole Brain Emulation Workshop (Oxford, UK - 07/05/26 - 27)
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