Nick Bostrom

Nick Bostrom is a philosopher.

TED Speaker Bio
"Philosopher Nick Bostrom envisioned a future full of human enhancement, nanotechnology and machine intelligence long before they became mainstream concerns. From his famous simulation argument -- which identified some striking implications of rejecting the Matrix-like idea that humans are living in a computer simulation -- to his work on existential risk, Bostrom approaches both the inevitable and the speculative using the tools of philosophy, probability theory, and scientific analysis... Since 2005, Bostrom has led the Future of Humanity Institute, a research group of mathematicians, philosophers and scientists at Oxford University tasked with investigating the big picture for the human condition and its future. He has been referred to as one of the most important thinkers of our age... His recent book Superintelligence advances the ominous idea that 'the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.'" – Source: TED

Talks

 * Nick Bostrom: What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? (March 2015)

TED Links

 * Nick Bostrom on TED.com (April 20, 2007), TED Blog
 * Edge question 2008: What have you changed your mind about? Why? (January 2, 2008), TED Blog
 * Global Catastrophic Risks Conference this July (May 29, 2008), TED Blog
 * Machines that learn: A recap of Session 3 at TED2015 by Thu-Huong Ha, Kate Torgovnick May and Laura McClure (March 17, 2015), TED Blog

Additional Resources

 * Nick Bostrom's Home Page
 * Nick Bostrom at Wikipedia