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The FHI director Professor Nick Bostrom and other members of staff are often available for media interviews. We work with journalists to provide an expert opinion and perspective, commentary on breaking news, and participation in discussion and debate, for radio, television, and print media. We understand that journalists often work to tight deadlines, and try to respond promptly to media inquiries.
Areas of expertise include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Topics related to rationality, wisdom and governance:
- The role of science and technology in society
- Cognitive biases
- The nature of morality
- Global governance
- Optimal philanthropy
- Global priorities
- Nature of disagreement
- Sustainability
- Human identity
- Anthropic reasoning in cosmology (multiverse, origin of life, etc.)
- The future of technology and the future of humanity:
- The future of human evolution
- Machine intelligence
- The singularity
- Robotics
- Mind “uploading” (whole brain emulation)
- Technological progress and stagnation
- Nanotechnology
- Virtual reality
- Transhumanism and bioconservatism
- Neuroethics
- The simulation argument
- The search for extraterrestrial life
- Human enhancement, including the ethics, social impacts, and technological implementation:
- Cognition enhancing drugs
- Brain-computer interfaces, etc.
- Life-extension / anti-aging medicine
- Performance enhancement in sport
- Genetic engineering and genetic selectio
- Global catastrophic risks:
- Existential risks
- Synthetic biology
- Systemic risks
- Information hazards
- Surveillance society
- Risks from artificial intelligence
- Risks from nanotechnology
