{"id":14157,"date":"2024-04-19T23:38:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T21:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/oxford-shuts-down-institute-run-by-elon-musk-backed-philosopher\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T23:38:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T21:38:05","slug":"oxford-shuts-down-institute-run-by-elon-musk-backed-philosopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/oxford-shuts-down-institute-run-by-elon-musk-backed-philosopher\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Bostrom\u2019s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was \u2018death by bureaucracy\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Musk\u2019s favorite philosophers. The Future of Humanity Institute, dedicated to the long-termism movement and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism, closed this week after 19 years of operation. Musk had donated \u00a31m to the FIH in 2015 through a sister organization to research the threat of artificial intelligence. He had also boosted the ideas of its leader for nearly a decade on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The center was run by Nick Bostrom, a Swedish-born philosopher whose writings about the long-term threat of AI replacing humanity turned him into a celebrity figure among the tech elite and routinely landed him on lists of top global thinkers. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Tesla chief Musk all wrote blurbs for his 2014 bestselling book Superintelligence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/apr\/19\/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fe65c313f2b65fe6d8323f15bbb4ea39b491e6a5\/0_152_5400_3240\/master\/5400.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=14d6567c5a9c5acae593057ac9a012d3\" title=\"Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher\" \/>Nick Bostrom\u2019s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was \u2018death by bureaucracy\u2019<br \/>\nOxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Musk\u2019s favorite philosophers. The Future of Humanity Institute, dedicated to the long-termism movement and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism, closed this week after 19 years of operation. Musk had donated \u00a31m to the FIH in 2015 through a sister organization to research the threat of artificial intelligence. He had also boosted the ideas of its leader for nearly a decade on X, formerly Twitter.<br \/>\nThe center was run by Nick Bostrom, a Swedish-born philosopher whose writings about the long-term threat of AI replacing humanity turned him into a celebrity figure among the tech elite and routinely landed him on lists of top global thinkers. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Tesla chief Musk all wrote blurbs for his 2014 bestselling book Superintelligence. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Bostrom\u2019s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was \u2018death by bureaucracy\u2019 Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Musk\u2019s favorite philosophers. The Future of Humanity Institute, dedicated to the long-termism movement and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism, closed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/oxford-shuts-down-institute-run-by-elon-musk-backed-philosopher\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}