- artificial intelligence, ethics, human extinction, morality
A super-hopped-up Pascal’s wager considering the existence of superintelligent AI vs the destruction of the human race.
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Contemporary, spare, epic and grave.
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- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- First published
- 2025
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Bodley Head, Vintage Digital, Hachette Audio
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316595643
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““Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.””
American AI researcher and writer
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