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Nick Bostrom publishes Superintelligence
The book that took the idea of uncontrollable AI from niche forums to tech leaders
Key facts
- Date
- 3 Jul 2014
- Era
- Prologue
- Interest
- Books
- Threads
- Safety & governance
- Author
- Nick Bostrom, Future of Humanity Institute
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 3 Jul 2014 (UK), 3 Sep 2014 (US)
Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies argued that an AI far smarter than humans would be hard to control and could pursue its goals in catastrophic ways. Elon Musk tweeted that it was “worth reading”, and Sam Altman called it “the best thing I've seen on this topic”.
Sources
- Oxford University Press, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, 2014-07-03
- Sam Altman, Machine intelligence, part 1, 2015-02-25
- The Christian Science Monitor, Elon Musk: Artificial intelligence 'potentially more dangerous than nukes', 2014-08-04