Description

This talk will be livestreamed on all official ODSC social media - Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc. 

Join Nick Bostorm, founding director and head of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University and NYT bestselling author of Superintelligence, for an hour long discussion on the ethics of digital minds. Over the course of an hour, you’ll explore the implications of a future where AI develops into morally considerable beings and the challenges that this presents.


Local ODSC chapter in NYC, USA

Instructor's Bio

Nick Bostrom,

Professor at Oxford University

He heads the Future of Humanity Institute as its founding director. He is the author of more than 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (2008), Human Enhancement (2009), and Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014), which became a New York Times bestseller and sparked a global conversation about the future of AI.  His academic work has been translated into more than 30 languages, and he is the world’s most cited philosopher aged 50 or under. He is a repeat main-stage TED speaker and he has been interviewed more than 1,000 times by various media.  He has been on Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list twice and was included in Prospect’s World Thinkers list, the youngest person in the top 15.  Some of his recent work has focused on the ethics of digital minds.  He has a book in the works on a topic yet to be disclosed.

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    On-DEMAND WEBINAR: Lightning Interview "The Ethics of Digital Minds"

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