Bostrom’s book-a call to arms to the leaders of industry, government, and the military about the possible threat posed by AI to the future of humanity-led Raffi Khatchadourian in November to dub Bostrom “a philosopher of remarkable influence” in his feature on the professor, The Doomsday Invention.īostrom has been listed on Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list twice, and he was the youngest person included on Prospect magazine’s World Thinkers list.Īnd on April 11th, Bostrom’s keynote address at London Book Fair’s Quantum Conference will help make good on the event’s tag line, “Publishing & So Much More.” He certainly is that. If you haven’t been following the rise of the new technology, then the threat of an AI takeover in the next 100 years may come as a surprise or seem a joke, even a piece of science-fiction. It’s also the title of his book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies(Oxford University Press), which was published in 2014 and made The New York Times bestseller list.

DeepMind has become the first computer program to beat a professional human player at the game of Go, this month scoring a 4-to-1 victory over one of the world’s top champions.īostrom defines superintelligence as an intelligence much smarter than the best human brains in practically every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom, and social skills. Projected on to the wall behind him is a live stream from the Google DeepMind AlphaGo challenge being played in Seoul. “Artificial Intelligence could in the end replace most, if not all, of the high-level functions of an editor, but if you get to that point then the whole game changes not just for an industry but for humanity as a whole, because it will have become superintelligent,” says Oxford academic and prophet of an AI apocalypse Nick Bostrom. Porter Andersonīy Mark Piesing | ‘A Risk That We Will Smash Into the Wall’ And when it comes to fears of AI’s potential, Piesing comes back to us here with a quantum of solace for publishing. We asked Mark Piesing to speak with the professor in Oxford. Image: Mark Piesingįor those of us accustomed to attending London Book Fair’s “Publishing for Digital Minds” conference each year, there’s a mild retraining task in the event’s new name, “Quantum: Publishing & So Much More.” The day is again under the able direction of Orna O’Brien, however, and after LBF chief Jacks Thomas welcomes the crowd, she and co-chairs Bill Thompson and Alison Jones will hand off to Nick Bostrom for the opening keynote. Nick Bostrom at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute.

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