Future of Humanity Institute

10 February 2010

JM Seminar HT10 - Week 4

Wednesday, 10 February

Professor Sujoy Mukerji (Department of Economics, University of Oxford)
“Decision making under ambiguous uncertainty”

For further details, abstracts and full programme see Seminars

3 December 2009

Nick Bostrom makes The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers

In a special issue (December 2009), Foreign Policy magazine has published its list of who had the big ideas that shaped our world this year.  From the article:  "Bostrom has emerged as a leading voice on the changes humankind will experience in the generations to come, which, he believes, will be many".  Click here to go to article.

26 November 2009

Interviews with FHI and BEP researchers

Interviews with FHI and BEP researchers and associates now available on the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics website (MP3 audio files). Interviews conducted by David Edmonds (BBC World Service and Research Associate, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and co-author of the Philosophy Bites podcast)

26 November 2009

World Economic Forum (Dubai, 20-22 November)

Nick Bostrom has recently attended the World Economic Forum's Summit on the Global Agenda in Dubai.

The Summit brought together over 700 council members of the most innovative and relevant minds from over 90 countries – leaders from academia, business, government and civil society – to address some of the most pressing issues on the global agenda. In attendance were 3 Nobel Laureates, 300 business leaders, 240 members from academia, 100 leaders from civil society – NGOs, think tanks, over 50 leaders from international organizations and 30 public figures.

More from the WEF website.

23 November 2009

Global Catastrophic Risks presentation now on Enhanced Media Player

View Professor Nick Bostrom's presentation to the Chancellor's Court of Benefactors on 1 October 2009 on new Enhanced Media Player:  'Global Catastrophic Risks'.

FHI and BEP are to produce more of these multi-media enhanced video lectures aimed at introducing those without a background in philosophy to the areas of our research.  The lectures will incorporate relevant web-accessible media – journal articles, research reports, powerpoint presentations etc – which will be integrated into the video lecture, and will be made available to view on the relevant websites. 

More video and audio resources on our multimedia page.