If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies (Yudkowsky)

Author: Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares

ISBN: 9780316595643

Binding: hardcover

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

In 2023, hundreds of AI luminaries signed an open letter warning that artificial intelligence poses a serious risk of human extinction. Since then, the AI race has only intensified. Companies and countries are rushing to build machines that will be smarter than any person. And the world is devastatingly unprepared for what would come next.How could a machine superintelligence wipe out our entire species? Why would it want to? Would it want anything at all? In this urgent book, Yudkowsky and Soares walk through the theory and the evidence, present one possible extinction scenario, and explain what it would take for humanity to survive.