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). 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.

Worth reading.

• Preface ; 1. Past Developments and Present Capabilities ; 2. Roads to Superintelligence ; 3. Forms of Superintelligence ; 4. Singularity Dynamics ; 5. Decisive Strategic Advantage ; 6. Intellectual Superpowers ; 7. The Superintelligent Will ; 8. Is the Default Outcome Doom? ; 9. The Control Problem ; 10. Oracles, Genies, Sovereigns, Tools ; 11. Multipolar Scenarios ; 12. Acquiring Values ; 13. Design Choices ; 14. The Strategic Picture ; 15. Nut-Cutting Time

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). 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.

Worth reading.

• Preface ; 1. Past Developments and Present Capabilities ; 2. Roads to Superintelligence ; 3. Forms of Superintelligence ; 4. Singularity Dynamics ; 5. Decisive Strategic Advantage ; 6. Intellectual Superpowers ; 7. The Superintelligent Will ; 8. Is the Default Outcome Doom? ; 9. The Control Problem ; 10. Oracles, Genies, Sovereigns, Tools ; 11. Multipolar Scenarios ; 12. Acquiring Values ; 13. Design Choices ; 14. The Strategic Picture ; 15. Nut-Cutting Time

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). 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.

Worth reading.

• Preface ; 1. Past Developments and Present Capabilities ; 2. Roads to Superintelligence ; 3. Forms of Superintelligence ; 4. Singularity Dynamics ; 5. Decisive Strategic Advantage ; 6. Intellectual Superpowers ; 7. The Superintelligent Will ; 8. Is the Default Outcome Doom? ; 9. The Control Problem ; 10. Oracles, Genies, Sovereigns, Tools ; 11. Multipolar Scenarios ; 12. Acquiring Values ; 13. Design Choices ; 14. The Strategic Picture ; 15. Nut-Cutting Time