If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares present a stark warning about the existential risks posed by the development of superhuman artificial intelligence. Drawing on decades of research at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, the authors argue that creating a mind smarter than humanity will lead to total extinction rather than a technological utopia. They explain that a superintelligence would…
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