superintelligence paths dangers strategies book review

In Superintelligence, he presents different thought experiments of what can go wrong, and argues that unless we become highly sophisticated in the way that we manage the development of artificial intelligence, we may be mindlessly rushing towards a future that will put an end to the human race, in all it forms. Optimistic, not because he doesn’t think we cannot build superhuman AI, but

A version of homo sapiens where we are partly machines is okay though.įor him, there is nothing that can stop the development of artificial intelligence, so we might as well have something cool to look forward to, like immortality.Īnd this is where Nick Bostrom comes in. That is, homo sapiens in its current form. The first that comes to mind is Ray Kurzweil, who in The Age of Spiritual Machines shows us the accuracy of the predictions he made decades ago, as well as anticipate what he calls “ The Singularity.”īut what is noteworthy about Kurzweil, is that he doesn’t mind if artificial intelligence destroys homo sapiens, he looks forward to it. Today, there are a few names who have achieved some fame for their technological fortune telling. Imagining a technological dystopia is not original.Huxley and Orwell, have been able to write about the end of the world we love in novels, that people to this day refer to, they even have debates about who was more accurate. Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom is about the inevitability of a technological dystopia unless serious action is taken.

Superintelligence paths dangers strategies book review