First European Interstellar Symposium 2024

Anders Sandberg

Dr. Anders Sandberg is a researcher at the Mimir Centre for Long Term Futures at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. His research at the centers on management of low-probability high-impact risks, societal and ethical issues surrounding human enhancement, estimating the capabilities of future technologies, uncertainty, and very long-range futures. Topics of particular interest include global catastrophic risk, existential risk, cognitive enhancement, methods of forecasting, neuroethics, SETI, transhumanism, and future-oriented public policy.

He was senior research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford 2006-2024. He is research associate of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and the Center for the Study of Bioethics (Belgrade). He is on the board of the non-profits ALLFED and AI Objectives Institute. He is on the advisory boards of a number of organizations and often debates science and ethics in international media.

Anders has a background in computer science, neuroscience and medical engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from Stockholm University, Sweden, for work on neural network modelling of human memory.


Affiliation

Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm


Sessions

12-02
09:00
420min
Introductory Seminars
Andreas M. Hein, Anders Sandberg, Les Johnson
Banquet Room
12-03
15:00
20min
To Seed or Not to Seed: The Ethical Implications of Directed Panspermia
Anders Sandberg, Asher Soryl
Session 2: Materials, ethics & space law
Banquet Room