- Lived:
- Born 1973, Helsingborg, Sweden · Oxford for two decades · still writing today
- Tradition:
- Analytic philosophy applied to humanity's long-term future — existential risk, AI, and the ethics of technology
- The Big Idea:
- Humanity's story could last for billions of years or end this century — and because almost everything of value lies in that long future, reducing even tiny risks of permanent catastrophe may be the most important thing we can do.
- If you remember one thing:
- Years before artificial intelligence dominated the news, one philosopher sat down and asked, with complete seriousness: what happens to us if we succeed in building something smarter than ourselves?