Who is Nick Bostrom?

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Professor Nick Bostrom is the director of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, tasked with anticipating and preventing threats to human civilization.

He has been studying the risks of artificial intelligence for over twenty years. In his 2014 book Superintelligence, he covers, among other things three major questions:

First, why is superintelligence a topic of concern
Second, what is a “hard takeoff” and how does it impact our concern about superintelligence?
Third, what measures can we take to make superintelligence safe and beneficial for humanity?

What are existential risks (x-risks)?

Nick Bostrom