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Charming romance with an excellent narrator. Very nice to have a male narrator, with an amazing range of accents and voices for different characters.

This was both an interesting subject and it was explained in a clear and simple way. Excellent read!

This book makes the discussion about the danger of Artificial superhuman intelligence digestible – and terrifying. And yet it’s hopeful. Not an easy read but well worth the effort.

I liked that they repeated the fundamentals of their thesis to drive home the important aspects of this complex topic.

I’m not sure we can hold back the rush to build superhuman intelligence but the risk is definitely there if we don’t. Will humanity will see the urgency of the situation? I don’t know, this day and age it is very difficult to get consensus on anything, though there is always hope.

Possibly the most important book ever written. If you’re interested in AI, this is a must read. We all need to get our priorities straight.

Ok read. Not very convincing arguments. Can sound too simplistic or even silly at times.

Irrational leaps in logic, too many unhelpful analogies, wild assumptions about human passivity, and machine ‘wants”. Deeper and more serious work is required on this vital subject – this book is not it sadly.

The First 6 chapters are quite a lot of throat clearing that feels like very familiar territory if you’ve investigated the topic of AI risk even a tiny bit. I’d even go as far as to say that first half of the book feels quite tedious and pedantic, given the title of the book. By..

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I don’t know anything about biology, neurology, or endocrinology, but computers can do absolutely anything. Technology only progresses. I don’t know anything about history, but technology only progresses. /s