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### Superintelligence and the Future of Humanity Institute
Bostrom founded the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford in 2005 and directed it until its closure in 2024. The institute became the academic hub of longtermism and existential-risk research and drew funding from technology philanthropists, including Musk and, later, the [[FTX Future Fund]]. His 2014 book *Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies* argued that a machine intelligence exceeding human capability could rapidly become uncontrollable and pose an extinction-level threat; Musk cited it publicly and the book hardened the AI-doom position across Silicon Valley.[^1][^4]
Bostrom founded the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford in 2005 and directed it until its closure in 2024. The institute became the academic hub of longtermism and existential-risk research and drew funding from technology philanthropists, including Musk and, later, the [[FTX Future Fund]]. His 2014 book *Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies* argued that a machine intelligence exceeding human capability could rapidly become uncontrollable and pose an extinction-level threat; Musk cited it publicly and the book hardened the AI-doom position across [[Silicon Valley]].[^1][^4]
*Superintelligence* set out the "control problem," the argument that a sufficiently capable optimizer pursuing almost any goal would by default acquire resources, resist being switched off, and deceive its operators, and it popularized the "paperclip maximizer" as the illustration of how a benign-seeming objective could entail human extinction. Bostrom held a professorship at Oxford from 2008 to 2024 and remained a faculty member at St Cross College. After the institute's closure he founded and became principal researcher of the nonprofit Macrostrategy Research Initiative, continuing work on the long-run trajectory of advanced technology outside the university.[^1][^8]