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Helsingborg, Sweden
Known for
- The Alien Perspective2025
- A Glitch in the Matrix — Self2021
- Great Minds — Self2021
- Machine — Self2019
- More Human Than Human — Self2018
- AlphaGo — Himself2017
- Supersapiens: the Rise of the Mind — Self2017
- The Hard Problem: The Science Behind the Fiction — Self2004
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Key facts
- Born
- Niklas Boström , ( 1973-03-10 ) 10 March 1973 (age 53) , Helsingborg , Sweden
- Spouse
- Susan
- Education
- University of Gothenburg ( BA ) Stockholm University ( MA ) King's College London ( MSc ) London School of Economics ( PhD )
- Thesis
- Observational Selection Effects and Probability (2000)
- Doctoral advisor
- Colin Howson , Craig Callender
- Era
- Contemporary philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Analytic philosophy
- Institutions
- Yale University , University of Oxford , Future of Humanity Institute
- Main interests
- Philosophy of artificial intelligence , Bioethics
- Notable ideas
- Anthropic bias , Reversal test , Simulation hypothesis , Vulnerable world hypothesis , Existential risk studies , Singleton , Ancestor simulation , Information hazard , Infinitarian paralysis , Self-indication assumption , Self-sampling assumption
- Website
- nickbostrom .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Niklas
- Family name
- Boström
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Place of birth
- Helsingborg
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- University of Oxford
- Languages spoken
- Swedish
- Academic degree
- philosopher
- Field of work
- global catastrophic risk
- Official website
- www.nickbostrom.com
- Image
- Prof Nick Bostrom 324-1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Nick Bostrom
- date of birth
- 1973-03-10
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- Category:Nick Bostrom
- birth name
- Niklas Boström
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Encyclopedic overview
Nick Bostrom (/ˈbɒstrəm/ BOST-rəm; Swedish: Niklas Boström [ˈnɪ̌kːlas ˈbûːstrœm]; born 10 March 1973) is a philosopher known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, whole brain emulation, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test. He was the founding director of the later defunct Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and has become Principal Researcher at the Macrostrategy Research Initiative.
Bostrom is the author of Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy (2002), Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014) and Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World (2024).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nick Bostrom” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.