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020 _a9781847928924
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100 _aYudkowsky, Eliezer.
245 _aIf anyone builds it, everyone dies
_bthe case against superintelligent AI
260 _aNew York
_bBrown and Company
_c2025
300 _axii, 259p.
_b25 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 236-252) and index
520 _aIn 2023, hundreds of AI luminaries signed an open letter warning that artificial intelligence poses a serious risk of human extinction. Since then, the AI race has only intensified. Companies and countries are rushing to build machines that will be smarter than any person. And the world is devastatingly unprepared for what would come next. For decades, two signatories of that letter - Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares - have studied how smarter-than-human intelligences will think, behave, and pursue their objectives. Their research says that sufficiently smart AIs will develop goals of their own that put them in conflict with us - and that if it comes to conflict, an artificial superintelligence would crush us. The contest wouldn't even be close. How could a machine superintelligence wipe out our entire species? Why would it want to? Would it want anything at all? In this urgent book, Yudkowsky and Soares walk through the theory and the evidence, present one possible extinction scenario, and explain what it would take for humanity to survive. The world is racing to build something truly new under the sun. And if anyone builds it, everyone dies
650 _aArtificial intelligence
942 _cBK
999 _c11503
_d11503