Background
Sandberg, Anders was born on July 11, 1972 in Stockholm. Son of Sven Anders and Birgit Elinor (Johansson) Sandberg.
Sandberg, Anders was born on July 11, 1972 in Stockholm. Son of Sven Anders and Birgit Elinor (Johansson) Sandberg.
He holds a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from Stockholm University, and is currently a James Martin Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University.
Sandberg's research centres on societal and ethical issues surrounding human enhancement and new technology, as well as on assessing the capabilities and underlying science of future technologies. His recent contributions include work on cognitive enhancement (methods, impacts, and policy analysis). A technical roadmap on whole brain emulation.
On neuroethics; and on global catastrophic risks, particularly on the question of how to take into account the subjective uncertainty in risk estimates of low-likelihood, high-consequence risk. Between 1996 and 2000 he was Chairman of the Swedish Transhumanist Association. He was also the scientific producer for the neuroscience exhibition "Se Hjärnan!" ("Behold the Brain!"), organized by Swedish Travelling Exhibitions, the Swedish Research Council and the Knowledge Foundation, that toured Sweden in 2005–2006.
In 2007 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford University, working on the EU-funded ENHANCE project on the ethics of human enhancement. One of his papers, entitled “Ethics of Brain Emulations”, became one of the most downloaded papers in the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence.
Transhumanist activist Extropians, since 1991. Chairman Vasalunds Naturevetenskapliga Förening, Stockholm, 1989-1991.