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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Nick Bostrom · 2014 · 352 pages

This profoundly ambitious and original book picks its way carefully through a vast tract of forbiddingly difficult intellectual terrain.

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Andrej Karpathy
“Struggling hard to finish the superintelligence book. One 2 chapters left. Must... be... strong...”↗
Naval Ravikant
“Nick Bostrom wrote a very famous book called super intelligence which lays out the paths to it. There are good rebuttals to super intelligence so I wouldn't just read that book you know breathless and wide-eyed and believe everything.”↗
Elon Musk
“Worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.”↗
Chris Williamson
“One of my most frequently read books on this list. Bostrom gives a superbly comprehensive view of our trajectory toward Superintelligent Artificial General Intelligences. How might these machines come about? Why would we want them? What are the implications and risks? How can we protect ourselves? Intellectually challenging and not a light read, but outrageously fascinating, terrifying and rewarding. If you like Sci-Fi, this is basically a non-fiction Sci-Fi read Non-Fiction 11”↗
Sam Altman
“Incidentally, Nick Bostrom’s excellent book “Superintelligence” is the best thing I’ve seen on this topic. It is well worth a read.”↗
Peter Thiel
“Philosopher Nick Bostrom describes four possible patterns for the future of humanity.”
Sam Harris
“The clearest book I’ve come across that makes the case that the so-called ‘control problem’ — the problem of building human-level and beyond artificial intelligence that we can control, that we can know in advance will converge with our interests — is a truly difficult and important task, because we will end up building this stuff by happenstance if we simply keep going in the direction we’re headed. Unless we can solve this problem in advance and have good reason to believe that the machines we are building are benign and their behavior predictable — even when they exceed us in intelligence a thousand-, a million-, or a billion-fold — this is going to be a catastrophic intrusion into our lives that we may not survive.”↗
Will MacAskill
“Very important book.”↗
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