The book focuses mainly on the emergence of a singleton, a single all-powerful AI with no reasonable competitors. Much of the book explores the potential consequences of creating such an AI and how we may limit its existential threat to humanity.ĭiscussions on the various methods of control and limitations we can apply on a superintelligent AI provide food for thought and an interesting way to look at competition and power within today's human environments. In that case, it is a natural conclusion that once a machine is on par with human intelligence, it surpass us with an ever-growing gap between our intelligence and that of AI. Suppose we also assume that learning and evolution can occur faster within a machine environment. From that moment on, the machine will continue to learn and evolve. Assuming, as we should, that systems and humans continue to become more intelligent over time and that we can create machines to simulate this process, it stands to reason that at some point, we will make a machine that exhibits human-level intelligence. The underlying premise of superintelligence is sound and almost inevitable. As someone working in AI, I felt it was a little too academic in its approach but serves as an excellent general reader overview of the space.

Still, the book left me with more of an introduction to vocabulary than a practical approach on what to do about it.

The book provides an easy to approach summary of threats and potential solutions. Nick Bostrom presents a broad and interesting review of the possible futures of superintelligent AI.

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