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"I highly recommend this book" --Bill Gates

"Terribly important. Groundbreaking, extraordinary sagacity and clarity, enabling him to combine his wide-ranging knowledge over an impressively broad spectrum of disciplines - engineering, natural sciences, medicine, social sciences and philosophy - into a comprehensible whole. If this book gets the reception that it deserves, it may turn out the most important alarm bell since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring from 1962, or ever." --
Olle Haggstrom, Professor of Mathematical Statistics

"Nick Bostrom's excellent book "Superintelligence" is the best thing I've seen on this topic. It is well worth a read." --
Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator and Co-Chairman of OpenAI

"Worth reading. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes" --
Elon Musk, Founder of SpaceX and Tesla

"Nick Bostrom makes a persuasive case that the future impact of AI is perhaps the most important issue the human race has ever faced. Instead of passively drifting, we need to steer a course. Superintelligence charts the submerged rocks of the future with unprecedented detail. It marks the beginning of a new era." --
Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkley

"This superb analysis by one of the world's clearest thinkers tackles one of humanity's greatest challenges: if future superhuman artificial intelligence becomes the biggest event in human history, then how can we ensure that it doesn't become the last?" --
Professor Max Tegmark, MIT

"Valuable. The implications of introducing a second intelligent species onto Earth are far-reaching enough to deserve hard thinking" --
The Economist

"There is no doubting the force of [Bostrom's] arguments. The problem is a research challenge worthy of the next generation's best mathematical talent. Human civilisation is at stake." --
Clive Cookson, Financial Times

"Those disposed to dismiss an 'AI takeover' as science fiction may think again after reading this original and well-argued book." --
Martin Rees, Past President, Royal Society

"Every intelligent person should read it." --
Nils Nilsson, Artificial Intelligence Pioneer, Stanford University

Book Description

Bostrom lays a foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0198739834
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; Reprint edition (May 1, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 390 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780198739838
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198739838
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.6 x 1 x 5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher and polymath with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence, as well as philosophy. He is a Professor at Oxford University, where he leads the Future of Humanity Institute as its founding director. (The FHI is a multidisciplinary university research center; it is also home to the Center for the Governance of Artificial Intelligence and to teams working on AI safety, biosecurity, macrostrategy, and various other technology or foundational questions.) He is the author of some 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (2008), Human Enhancement (2009), and Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014), a New York Times bestseller which helped spark a global conversation about artificial intelligence. Bostrom’s widely influential work, which traverses philosophy, science, ethics, and technology, has illuminated the links between our present actions and long-term global outcomes, thereby casting a new light on the human condition.

He is recipient of a Eugene R. Gannon Award, and has been listed on Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list twice. He was included on Prospect’s World Thinkers list, the youngest person in the top 15. His writings have been translated into 28 languages, and there have been more than 100 translations and reprints of his works. He is a repeat TED speaker and has done more than 2,000 interviews with television, radio, and print media. As a graduate student he dabbled in stand-up comedy on the London circuit, but he has since reconnected with the doom and gloom of his Swedish roots.

For more, see www.nickbostrom.com

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I've read this book in digital form, and then went back to order it in physical form as well. I highly, *highly* recommend it to people.I personally prefer hardcover books over paperbacks, and one thing that I could probably complain about is that the hardcover doesn't have the print on itself, but rather, there's a wrapper with the print. It can easily be ripped, scuffed, crumpled (had a couple of really minor, barely noticeable crumples on arrival) or taken off, which is a bit annoying, but it is what it is I guess.If this is something that puts you off, you probably don't want to get the hardcover option. Other than that, nothing to complain about - the delivery was super fast and the book is in great shape!
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