Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

The overall risk seems to be minimized by implementing superintelligence, with great care, as soon as possible.

Some experts and thinkers, such as Nick Bostrom, warn that humankind is unlikely to suffer this degradation, because once artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence, it might simply exterminate humankind. The AI is likely to do so either for fear that humankind would turn against it and try to pull its plug, or in pursuit of some unfathom

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