Nick Bostrom

Nick Bostrom Ph.D. is a Professor of Applied Ethics at Oxford University, and the Director of the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute. Dr. Bostrom co-founded the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies in 2005 and served as Chair of its Board of Directors until 2011. In 2011 he stepped down as Chair and was appointed as Senior Fellow.  Dr. Bostrom also co-founded the World Transhumanist Association (Humanity+) in 1998 and served as Chair of its Board of Directors until 2009. 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.

Dr. Bostrom is available for media interviews.

Office tel: 01865 - 27 69 34

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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)

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Articles

"Anthropic Shadow: Observation Selection Effects and Human Extinction Risks"   Risk Analysis (Aug 2010)  Aug 20, 2010

"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