The Future of Humanity Institute encompasses the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology in addition to the FHI's own core research team and associates.
FHI Research Staff
Nick Bostrom
Director
Nick Bostrom is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute 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), and a forthcoming book on Superintelligence. He previously taught at Yale, and he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy. Bostrom has a background in physics, computational neuroscience, and mathematical logic as well as philosophy.
Anders Sandberg
James Martin Research Fellow
Anders Sandberg’s research at the Future of Humanity Institute centres on societal and ethical issues surrounding human enhancement and new technology, as well as estimating the capabilities and underlying science of future technologies. Topics of particular interest include enhancement of cognition, cognitive biases, technology-enabled collective intelligence, neuroethics and public policy. He has worked on this within the EU project ENHANCE, where he also was responsible for public outreach and online presence.
Stuart Armstrong
James Martin Research Fellow
Stuart Armstrong's research at the Future of Humanity Institute centres on formal decision theory, the risks and possibilities of Artificial Intelligence, the long term potential for intelligent life, and anthropic probability. He has a background in mathematics and computational biochemistry.
Associates
Milan Cirkovic
Research Associate
Milan M. Cirkovic (b. 1971) is a research professor at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, (Serbia) and an associate professor at the Department of Physics, University of Novi Sad (Serbia). He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA), M.S. in Earth and Space Sciences from the same university, and his B.Sc. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Belgrade.
Robin Hanson
Research Associate
Robin Hanson is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and a Research Associate at the Future of Humanity Institute. After receiving his Ph.D. in social science from the California Institute of Technology in 1997, Robin was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health policy scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1984, Robin received a masters in physics and a masters in the Philosophy of Science from the University of Chicago, and afterward spent nine years researching Artificial Intelligence, Bayesian statistics, and hypertext publishing, independently, and at Lockheed, NASA.
Guy Kahane
Research Associate
Dr Guy Kahane is the Deputy Director of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. He has BPhil and DPhil degrees in Philosophy from Oxford University, and is the recipient of a University Award from the Wellcome Trust (2009-2014). Kahane's research interests include metaethics, value theory, applied ethics, and the psychology and neuroscience of morality. Kahane is also directly involved in neuroimaging studies of moral decision-making.
Carl Shulman
Research Associate
Carl Shulman is a Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Carl has authored and co-authored several papers on artificial intelligence and whole brain emulation. Previously, he held a position at Clarium Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund managed by PayPal founder and Facebook investor Peter Thiel. He attended New York University School of Law and holds a BA in philosophy from Harvard University.
Toby Ord
Research Associate
Toby Ord is a James Martin Research Fellow with the Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, but also contributes towards the FHI's research aims. His FHI research interests encompass both theoretical and practical ethics. He is currently focusing on a number of questions concerning the nature of consequentialism, its connection to practical decision making, and its relationship to other normative theories. In addition, he is looking at the moral status of the human embryo and at techniques to identify and overcome biases in ethical decision making.
Futuretech Staff
Daniel Dewey
Alexander Tamas Research Fellow
Daniel Dewey's research centers on machine superintelligence, and in particular on fundamental principles for designing safe and beneficial AI. He was previously a software engineer at Google.
Toby Ord
James Martin Research Fellow
Toby Ord's background combines theoretical computer science with analytic philosophy. He is especially interested in how certain key future technologies may seriously affect society for good or ill, on a timescale of around thirty to a hundred years.
Sean O hEigeartaigh
James Martin Academic Project Manager
Seán has a background in genetics, having recently finished his phD in molecular evolution in Trinity College Dublin where he focused on programmed ribosomal frameshifting and comparative genomic approaches to improve genome annotation.
Carl Frey
James Martin Research Fellow
Research interests include the transition of industrial nations to knowledge-driven economies; subsequent challenges in terms of economic growth and the efficiency of financial markets.
Vincent Mueller
James Martin Research Fellow
Vincent C. Müller's research at the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology focuses on the nature and future of computational systems, particularly on the prospects of artificial intelligence.