Swedish philosopher at Oxford — founder of the Future of Humanity Institute — author of Superintelligence — who created the intellectual framework for AI existential risk and the simulation argument — the most influential philosopher in AI safety discourse.
Creates the superintelligence risk framework — Bostrom's Superintelligence is the first rigorous philosophical argument that a sufficiently advanced AI might pursue goals that are catastrophic for humans not through malice but through instrumental convergence (any goal requires self-preservation, resource acquisition, and goal-content integrity — which conflict with human welfare).
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