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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Nick Bostrom · 2014

"A machine superintelligence could rapidly become uncontrollable and poses an existential risk to humanity."

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Nick Bostrom's foundational book on AI safety. He argues that if we successfully create an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) that surpasses human intelligence, it poses an existential risk to humanity unless its goals are perfectly aligned with our own.

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