The Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) (2005-2024)
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A The Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) (2005-2024) is an interdisciplinary research centre focused on the study of big-picture questions about humanity and its prospects.
- Context:
- It can be founded by Nick Bostrom.
- It can have an FHI Employee Count, such as ~50 in 2021-07, ~25 in 2023-07
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- See: Non-Profit Organization.
References
2024
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/28/nick-bostrom-controversial-future-of-humanity-institute-closure-longtermism-affective-altruism
- NOTES
- Multidisciplinary Focus: Founded in 2005 by Nick Bostrom, the FHI was dedicated to studying existential risks, particularly those associated with advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, aiming to anticipate and mitigate potential threats to humanity's future.
- Influential Ideas and Support: The institute gained recognition beyond academic circles, especially in Silicon Valley, attracting support from tech billionaires and influencing broader philosophical and technological discussions with concepts like longtermism and effective altruism.
- Controversial Closure: After facing internal administrative challenges and external controversies, including criticisms of fostering a "cult-like" ideology and connections to problematic figures, the FHI closed in April 2024, ending its operations amid significant academic and public debate.
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2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Humanity_Institute Retrieved:2023-7-14.
- The Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Oxford investigating big-picture questions about humanity and its prospects. It was founded in 2005 as part of the Faculty of Philosophy and the Oxford Martin School. Its director is philosopher Nick Bostrom, and its research staff include futurist Anders Sandberg and Giving What We Can founder Toby Ord. Sharing an office and working closely with the Centre for Effective Altruism, the institute's stated objective is to focus research where it can make the greatest positive difference for humanity in the long term. It engages in a mix of academic and outreach activities, seeking to promote informed discussion and public engagement in government, businesses, universities, and other organizations. The centre's largest research funders include Amlin, Elon Musk, the European Research Council, Future of Life Institute, and Leverhulme Trust.
2015
- http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/
- The Future of Humanity Institute is a multidisciplinary research institute at the University of Oxford. It enables a select set of leading intellects to bring the tools of mathematics, philosophy, and science to bear on big-picture questions about humanity and its prospects.
2014
- (Hawking, Russell, et al., 2014) ⇒ Stephen J. Hawking, Stuart J. Russell, Max Tegmark, and Frank Wilczek. (2014). “Transcendence Looks at the Implications of Artificial Intelligence - but are we taking AI seriously enough?." The Independent, May 2, 2014
- … Although we are facing potentially the best or worst thing to happen to humanity in history, little serious research is devoted to these issues outside non-profit institutes such as the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, the Future of Humanity Institute, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and the Future of Life Institute. All of us should ask ourselves what we can do now to improve the chances of reaping the benefits and avoiding the risks.
2008
- (Sandberg & Bostrom, 2008) ⇒ Anders Sandberg, and Nick Bostrom. (2008). “Whole Brain Emulation." Technical Report #2008-3, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University.
- QUOTE: In order to develop ideas about the feasibility of WBE, ground technology foresight and stimulate interdisciplinary exchange, the Future of Humanity Institute hosted a workshop on May 26 and 27, 2007, in Oxford. Invited experts from areas such as computational neuroscience, brain-scanning technology, computing, nanotechnology, and neurobiology presented their findings and discussed the possibilities, problems and milestones that would have to be reached before WBE becomes feasible.