![]() ![]() ![]() No matter what form an SAI might take – and Bostrom describes a few likely alternatives – and no matter what its values might be (even if its penchant happens to be to calculate pi out to a googolplex decimal points), it is likely to have interests that rub up against ours – such as a desire for resources or energy. This is because superintelligence is serious business. If we are greeted by a superintelligent artificial intelligence (SAI) within this century, as Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom suggests is highly likely, we may look upon this book either as an alarm that helped avert disaster or as a prescient insight into the makings of our doom. Indeed, perhaps even the most significant book of your lifetime. Superintelligence might be the most important book you’ll read this year. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies ![]()
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