Superintelligence - Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Zusatztext Every intelligent person should read it. Zusammenfassung This seminal book injects the topic of superintelligence into the academic and popular mainstream. What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? In a tour de force of analytic thinking! Bostrom lays a foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. Informationen zum Autor Nick Bostrom is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and founding Director of the Strategic Artificial Intelligence Research Centre and of the Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology within the Oxford Martin School. He is the author of some 200 publications! including Anthropic Bias (Routledge! 2002)! Global Catastrophic Risks (ed.! OUP! 2008)! and Human Enhancement (ed.! OUP! 2009). He previously taught at Yale! and he was a PostdoctoralFellow of the British Academy. Bostrom has a background in physics! computational neuroscience! and mathematical logic as well as philosophy.