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This was boring to listen to because it had too much supposition and not factual based.

Please listen to/read this book!! Is anybody in governmental decision-making roles paying attention? I am most definitely not a big-government guy, but governments exist for one primary reason: To do what individuals cannot do to protect themselves. This is one of those instances, and the authors have a compelling case!

Critical read. Those rating lower clearly did not read and/nor understand. The credentials are solid. The logic sound. The cited examples real and the conclusion irrefutable. The scenarios real but only a fraction of various outcomes. And they don’t even touch on the already current reality that even if non of this was true, and..

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The hypothetical story was a lot to be desired. For the most part, the book was okay. But, based on reviews of others, I expected a little more realism and not so much fantastical pessimism, and fear casting. Just my opinion.

one of the most important books I’ve ever read – everyone needs to be familiar with the arguments these authors put forward and think deeply and seriously about them

I am hesitant to even attempt a review of this book because the consequences seem so dire

Kathryn Bigelow recommended this book in a Guardian interview so I ordered it yesterday and devoured it today The existential threat posed by ASI is made clear by the authors, both unimpeachable experts on the subject I appreciated the analogies, escape strategies, and incentives, motivations, and methods uncontrollable Artificial Super Intelligence will likely use to..

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Finally, an analysis from authors who truly understand evolutionary psychology. This is the lens you need to recognize the unpredictable threat posed by the reckless pursuit of the general AI “holy grail” that tech CEOs are sleepwalking toward with either feigned concern or just plain ignorance. Evolutionary psychology reminds us that our minds are adapted..

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If you care about living, read this book. “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” makes a calm, ideologically neutral, fact based case, that super intelligence is humanity’s gravest threat. Humans came to rule the Earth because we are the smartest species on Earth. Super intelligence will be smarter than us. It will inevitably rule the..

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I was hoping for a more detailed technical explanation on what we don’t know and do know that supports the thesis.