#8 in Technology & IT
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
- NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list, peaked at #7
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About the book
"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. For decades, two signatories of that letter—Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares—have studied how smarter-than-human intelligences will think, behave, and pursue their objectives. Their research says that sufficiently smart AIs will develop goals of their own that put them in conflict with us—and that if it comes to conflict, an artificial superintelligence would crush us. The contest wouldn’t even be close. 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. The world is racing to build something truly new under the sun. And if anyone builds it, everyone dies."-- Provided by Amazon
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 69 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 31% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Technology & IT average of 8.0. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 69 | 100% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“This was OK but ultimately, personally, not as persuasive as I think the authors would have hoped, and I got slightly annoyed by some of the dialogue and silly scenarios. Although, surprisingly, a lot of the sentiments presented in this book I found having strong…”
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