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| known_for = ''Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies'', existential risk, anthropic bias, the reversal test, the simulation hypothesis, ethical consequentialism | website = }} Nick Bostrom (Swedish: Niklas Boström; born 10 March 1973)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=nickbostrom.com )〕 is a Swedish philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, superintelligence risks, the reversal test, and consequentialism. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics (2000). In 2011, he founded the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Professor Nick Bostrom : People )〕 and he is currently the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Future of Humanity Institute – University of Oxford )〕 at Oxford University. He is the author of over 200 publications,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The viability of Transcendence: the science behind the film )〕 including ''Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies'' (2014), a ''New York Times'' bestseller〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Best Selling Science Books )〕 and ''Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy'' (2002). In 2009 and 2015, he was included in ''Foreign Policy'' Top 100 Global Thinkers list. Bostrom's work on superintelligence – and his concern for its existential risk to humanity over the coming century – has brought both Elon Musk and Bill Gates to similar thinking.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Forbes )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bill Gates Is Worried About the Rise of the Machines )〕 ==Biography== Bostrom was born in 1973 in Helsingborg, Sweden.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nickbostrom.com/ )〕 At a young age, he disliked school, and he ended up spending his last year of high school learning from home. He sought to educate himself in a wide variety of disciplines, including anthropology, art, literature, and science. He holds a B.A. in philosophy, mathematics, mathematical logic, and artificial intelligence from the University of Gothenburg and master's degrees in philosophy and physics, and computational neuroscience from Stockholm University and King's College London, respectively. During his time at Stockholm University, he researched the relationship between language and reality by studying the analytic philosopher W.V. Quine. 〔 In 2000, he was awarded a PhD in philosophy from the London School of Economics. He held a teaching position at Yale University (2000–2002), and he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford (2002–2005).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nick Bostrom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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