Table of Contents

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
Afterword

About the Author

Nick Bostrom is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and founding Director of the Strategic Artificial Intelligence Research Centre 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.

Reviews

`[A] magnificent conception ... it ought to be required reading on all philosophy undergraduate courses, by anyone attempting to build AIs and by physicists who think there is no point to philosophy.'
Brian Clegg, Popular Science