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Bostrom presents a competent synthesis of the (2014) state-of-the-art in AI risk theory. He covers all the major bases, from the danger that unfriendly AI poses to humanity to Hanson's EM multipolar scenarios, to Yudkowsky's CEV proposition. Anyone who has followed the field is unlikely to find anything conceptually new here, but some of the detail and analysis is still worthwhile reading, particularly because Bostrom's presentation is skillful and clear where original authors might be dense or
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This is an excellent book that shows some - not all - potential dangers arising from the increasing intelligence of minds. It explores the possibility of more intelligent humans, more intelligent systems of humans, very intelligent AIs, and what will be the likely dangers stemming from each. It goes into depth on many topics like the different types of superintelligence that could get created in the coming decades, but what surprised me most is the realization that, even if we gave a superintell
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