Superintelligence
By Nick Bostrom
Categories: Computers & Technology
Our species owes its dominant position to its brains, not to strong muscles or sharp claws. In this 2014 book, philosopher Nick Bostrom asks what happens if machine brains one day surpass human intelligence: just as the fate of gorillas depends on us, our fate could come to depend on a superintelligence. Bostrom explores how superintelligence might be created, why it could be hard to control and how an intelligence explosion might be made survivable. We have one advantage, he argues: we get to make the first move.
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