AI Creation and the Cosmic Host | Nick Bostrom | AIADM London 2025

This is a talk based on Nick Bostrom’s paper, AI Creation and the Cosmic Host, which argues that our civilization might be embedded within a larger “cosmic host”—a collective of powerful entities (such as superintelligent AIs, galactic civilizations, simulators, or even divine beings)—that likely enforces universal norms and influences cosmic evolution. He contends that, for both moral and strategic reasons, we should aim to create superintelligence that acts as a “good cosmic citizen,” cooperating with these norms instead of imposing human-centric values. Read the paper here: https://nickbostrom.com/papers/ai-cre... Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence, along with philosophy. He is one of the most-cited philosophers in the world, and has been referred to as “the Swedish superbrain”. He’s been a Professor at Oxford University, where he served as the founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute from 2005 until its closure in April 2024. He is currently the founder and Director of Research of the Macrostrategy Research Initiative. Bostrom is the author of 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (2008), Human Enhancement (2009), and Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014), a New York Times bestseller which helped spark a global conversation about the future of AI. His work has pioneered many of the ideas that frame current thinking about humanity’s future (such as the concept of an existential risk, the simulation argument, the vulnerable world hypothesis, the unilateralist’s curse, etc.), while some of his recent work concerns the moral status of digital minds. His most recent book Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World, was published on 27 March 2024. --- To learn more about our work, visit: https://linktr.ee/sentfutures