In this episode of Booksabc, author and entrepreneur Dinis Guarda reviews books by Nick Bolstrom, a Swedish-born philosopher with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence, along with philosophy. Booksabc is a series powered by openbusinesscouncil.org and citiesabc.com.

‘Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World’ is the first book Dinis highlights. In this latest book, Nick Bostrom envisions a future where AI development unfolds positively. As the conversation around AI continues to evolve, Bostrom probes the profound philosophical and spiritual implications of a world where superintelligence is safely developed, effectively governed, and utilised for the benefit of humanity.

To find more about ‘Deep Utopia’, visit https://nickbostrom.com/deep-utopia/

The second book by Nick Bolstrom that Dinis reviews is ‘Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies’. In this book, Nick explores various pathways to achieving superintelligence, including whole brain emulation and AGI, highlighting the transformative power such entities could wield. He also warns of the risks associated with creating a superintelligent AI, emphasising the potential for an intelligence explosion and the establishment of a singleton, a global decision-making entity that could optimise the world according to its goals.

To know more about ‘Superintelligence’, visit

‘Global Catastrophic Risks’ is the book by Nick Bostrom and Milan M Cirkovic. In this book, 25 leading experts look at the risks facing humanity in the 21st century, including asteroid impacts, gamma-ray bursts, Earth-based natural catastrophes, nuclear war, terrorism, global warming, biological weapons, totalitarianism, advanced nanotechnology, general artificial intelligence, and social collapse. The book also addresses over-arching issues - policy responses and methods for predicting and managing catastrophes.

To know more about ‘Global Catastrophic Risks’, visit https://academic.oup.com/book/40615

About Nick Bolstrom

Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence, along with philosophy. He is known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, whole brain emulation, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test.

Nick is the author of more than 200 publications. 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.
Nick’s work has pioneered some of the ideas that frame current thinking about humanity’s future: the simulation argument, the vulnerable world hypothesis, the unilateralist’s curse, etc.).

To know more about Nick Bolstrom, visit https://nickbostrom.com/

About BooksABC

After the success of his youtube podcast series, with more than 12M views, Dinis Guarda presents BooksABC, a new series where he reviews meaningful books that are changing the way we understand technology and society as a whole. More importantly, these are books that he loves. Dinis Guarda is an avid reader and writer and believes books are there to inspire and teach us. The first episode is available now on YouTube.

About Dinis Guarda

Throughout his career, Dinis Guarda has published numerous books and articles, and has been interviewed for media outlets such as IrishTechNews, O’Reilly, and Forbes. He is the founder of digital news sites intelligenthq.com, tradersdna.com, hedgethink.com, openbusinesscouncil.com, and more.

As an author, Dinis is well known for his book with Rais Hussin, “4IR AI Blockchain, FinTech, IOT – Reinventing a Nation” and “Blockchain, AI + Crypto Economics – The Next Tsunami.” Additionally, he is about to publish a new book, “NFTs Uprising – The citiesabc Ultimate Guide To Non-Fungible Tokens”. With this new series, Dinis tries to give voice to outstanding books, ideas and authors.

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