Nick Bostrom

Economics and Econometrics · 2002–2025

A researcher in the Science corpus: 17 papers; trusts 30 researchers and is trusted by 45 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Economics and Econometrics — 20 citations into it
• Sociology and Political Science — 19 citations into it; #7,217 of 22,756 by trust here, #9,840 by citations
• Astronomy and Astrophysics — 18 citations into it; #3,499 of 10,964 by trust here, #6,397 by citations
• Philosophy — 18 citations into it; #113 of 1,040 by trust here, #124 by citations
• Cognitive Neuroscience — 15 citations into it; #4,957 of 10,852 by trust here, #7,600 by citations
• Atmospheric Science — 12 citations into it
• Global and Planetary Change — 11 citations into it
• Political Science and International Relations — 8 citations into it

Whom Nick Bostrom trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. S. Omohundro
2. Eliezer Yudkowsky
3. Michael Benton
4. David H. Autor
5. S. Solanki
6. P. Ward
7. Joseph Weizenbaum
8. Amos Tversky
9. Michael J. Sandel
10. Eugene Volokh

Who trusts Nick Bostrom overall

1. Stuart Armstrong
2. Tom Everitt
3. Roman V Yampolskiy
4. Max Tegmark
5. Samuel R. Bowman
6. Aviv Ovadya
7. Vincent C. Müller
8. Eliezer Yudkowsky
9. Amanda Askell
10. José Hernandez-Orallo

Papers from Nick Bostrom's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers Nick Bostrom trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
2. The Basic AI Drives
3. Heuristics and Biases: The Weighing of Evidence and the Determinants of Confidence
4. The case for motivated reasoning.
5. An Estimate of the Age Distribution of Terrestrial Planets in the Universe: Quantifying Metallicity as a Selection Effect
6. The Superintelligent Will: Motivation and Instrumental Rationality in Advanced Artificial Agents
7. Cosmic Rays, Clouds, and Climate (Science)
8. Existential risks: analyzing human extinction scenarios and related hazards
9. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (International Gambling Studies)
10. Unified scaling law for earthquakes. (Physical Review Letters)

Their papers

• The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2014) — 68 citations
• The Superintelligent Will: Motivation and Instrumental Rationality in Advanced Artificial Agents (2012) — 259 citations
• Are We Living in a Computer Simulation (2003) — 498 citations
• Strategic Implications of Openness in AI Development (2017) — 119 citations
• Global Catastrophic Risks (2008) — 417 citations
• Future Progress in Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Expert Opinion (2025) — 524 citations
• Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence (2020) — 183 citations
• The Vulnerable World Hypothesis (2019) — 137 citations
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014)
• Why I Want to be a Posthuman when I Grow Up (2013) — 221 citations
• Thinking Inside the Box: Controlling and Using an Oracle AI (2012) — 121 citations
• INFORMATION HAZARDS: A TYPOLOGY OF POTENTIAL HARMS FROM KNOWLEDGE (2011) — 82 citations
• Cognitive Enhancement: Methods, Ethics, Regulatory Challenges (2009) — 621 citations
• Ethical issues in human enhancement (2007) — 197 citations
• Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development (2003) — 187 citations
• Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy (2002) — 330 citations
• Existential risks: analyzing human extinction scenarios and related hazards (2002) — 480 citations