Superintelligence

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A New York Times bestseller.

Nick Bostrom's *Superintelligence* confronts humanity's most critical question: What happens when artificial intelligence surpasses human general intelligence? Bostrom argues that if machine intelligence becomes powerful beyond our control, the future of humankind will depend entirely on its actions. Yet, we have the unique opportunity to make the first move. Can we engineer seed AI to ensure an intelligence explosion is survivable and beneficial, not catastrophic? This ambitious and original work lays the foundation for understanding humanity's future in an age of intelligent machines.