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Ó hEigeartaigh to speak about the Future of Human Evolution - Pint of Science Festival
The Pint of Science festival takes place next week, with a set of excellent talks on the brain, the body and biotech in three of Oxford's best pubs.
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh on BBC Radio Gloucester speaking about Existential Risk
Nick Bostrom on Radio: BBC4 and BBC5
"Professor Nick Bostrom, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, will be speaking on both BBC4’s The World Tonight at 10pm and BBC5 at 10:30 tonight, elaborating on some of the topics discussed in today's BBC article on Existential Risk."
How are humans going to become extinct?
What are the greatest global threats to humanity? Are we on the verge of our own unexpected extinction?
"An international team of scientists, mathematicians and philosophers at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute is investigating the biggest dangers. And they argue in a research paper, Existential Risk as a Global Priority, that international policymakers must pay serious attention to the reality of species-obliterating risks.
Last year there were more academic papers published on snowboarding than human extinction.
The Swedish-born director of the institute, Nick Bostrom, says the stakes couldn't be higher. If we get it wrong, this could be humanity's final century..."
Read the whole story on BBC News.
Thesis Prize Competition deadline!
Entries will be accepted until 9AM, March 18th.
Reminder: the deadline's up for our Thesis Prize Competiton! We will accept entries up until 9am Monday morning for anyone finishing up, but after that the competition will be closed! First prize, £2,000.
FHI Website relaunch forthcoming.
Please forgive us for the dearth of updates recently. We're currently in the process of redesigning the FHI website, and will be relaunching it at the same URL in the next few weeks. Please be assured that research at the FHI continues full-steam!
In the meantime, please see our recently redesigned websites for Existential Risk:
and the Anthropic Principle:
Winter Intelligence Conference
On December 8–11, FHI is hosting a conference on artificial general intelligence and the issues, risks, and philosophical questions that it will raise.
Nick Bostrom, Anders Sandberg and Stuart Armstrong to speak in Oxford and Pilsen
FHI researchers to have a busy week speaking at home and abroad.
1. Sunday 4th: Nick Bostrom speaks about Existential Risk at TedX Oxford, 2:30pm
2. Tuesday 6th Stuart Armstrong speaks at “Beyond AI” conference in Pilsen on “Predicting AI – or failing to”
“When will we have proper AI? The literature is full of answers to this question, as confident as they are contradictory. I analyse these prediction from a theoretical standpoint (should we even expect anyone to have good AI predictions at all?) and a practical one (do the predictions made look as if they have good information behind them?). I conclude that we should not put our trust in timeline predictions, but that some philosophical predictions seem surprisingly effective – but that in all cases, we should increase our uncertainties and our error bars. If someone predicts the arrival of AI at some date with great confidence, we have every reason to think they’re completely wrong.”
3. Wednesday 7th Anders Sandberg speaks to the Oxford Transhumanists about “Alien intelligence, Existential Risks and the Limits of Technology”
https://www.facebook.com/events/477352175638740/
“The Fermi question "Where are they?" is one of those deceptively simple questions that have ramifications far beyond the obvious topic. It deals with the discrepancy between the enormous number of planetary systems where life might have emerged and the noticeable lack of alien intelligence, and the vast difference between astronomical timescales and the timescale needed for intelligent life to colonize large volumes of the universe. This means that it is not just a question about alien life, but about the limits of technology, long-term species survival, how to think in conditions of extreme ignorance, and our place in the universe. It turns out that most potential answers to the question have surprisingly radical implications.”
The Universe as a Numerical Simulation?
New section of FHI website started.
The FHI has started a new blog-style website section where we'll
a) provide commentary on papers and results in our fields of interest and
b) blog about "life at FHI" and some of the more interesting meetings and discussions we have, both
First up, does the recent "Universe as a numerical simulation" paper hold water? A brief discussion by some of the FHI's experts:
http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/life_at_fhi
Dr. Stuart Armstrong to speak at Singularity Summit
Dr. Stuart Armstrong and Dr. Anders Sandberg will be taking part in the Singularity Summit this weekend.
Stuart will be speaking on the innacuracies and biases he's identified in experts' predictions on artificial intelligence development timelines, as well as what might be done to improve how we predict the trajectory of transformative technologies of this type.
For an earlier research post on this topic, see:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/e36/ai_timeline_predictions_are_we_getting_better/
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