The latest article of The New Yorker titled ‘The Doomsday Invention’ about Nick Bostrom and his best-seller book ‘Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies’ has now been published. The writer of the article, Raffi Khatchadourian, who was nominated for a National Magazine Award in profile writing, throws light on Nick Bostrom’s profile and on The Future of Humanity Institute’s research.
The Future of Humanity Institute is pleased to announce the results for the 2014 Thesis Prize Competition: Crucial Considerations for the Future of Humanity. Entrants submitted a two-page ‘thesis proposal’ consisting of a 300 word abstract and an outline plan of a thesis on crucial considerations for humanity’s future. Professor Nick Bostrom, Dr Toby Ord […]
On October 13th, Dr. Seth Baum, the executive director of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, will lead a seminar on deterrence theory and global catastrophic risk reduction at FHI.