One measure of the value of a book is the number of points in it where I think to myself, “That’s a great argument / example / parable; I look forward to including it in my own conversations with people in the future”. On that score, IABIED is among the best books I’ve ever read…
Clearly lays out why the current trajectory of AI development will lead to catastrophe… and that the people building it have no plan how to avoid it. Scary! Humanity has to read, understand and wake up before it’s too late.
Liked the whole story, recommend as an audio for long drives in the car. I enjoyed this set of books.
It’s a gloomy, sobering, important book. It’s week presented. I’m still mulling if it’s fully persuasive.
I found this book very well-written and accessible. It respects the reader by giving clear explanations of the problems with building superintelligence, without making the arguments oversimplified or making them too complex to seem more impressive. That clarity made me appreciate the book a lot, because even though I have read quite a bit about..
Yudkowsky (with Nate Soares) delivers a tight, lawyerly case: if we build superintelligence before we know how to align it, we don’t get a second try. The spine of the book is simple and concrete: we’re growing minds with opaque training, not engineering goal systems we understand. Smarter doesn’t mean nicer—it can mean indifferent, and..
Give this book a read/listen. You won’t hear anything more important. The authors have a great talent of making a potentially complicated or dry topic be interesting and easy to understand.Give it a listen.
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This is a well-reasoned and thorough argument on AI policy, and what horrible consequences await us if our policy-makers and journalists fail us. It’s hard to understate how important it is for this message to reach the right decision-makers and thought-leaders. These individuals need to hear and understand the central message of this book: Please..
Review from If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies →
The battle cry is clear. The titanic is speeding toward the iceberg. Time to steer away.
Review from If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies →
This book, although written by a couple of hard core tech and science nerds, makes the case as clear for none techies as someone with their background can likely hope to make it. The message is clear stark and delivered in plain language, and never shy away from either the dangerous situation we are approaching..