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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies — What the book actually argues | The Book Brief Project
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies has a reputation for being a book about artificial intelligence. Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares are making a much narrower and more alarming argument: if humanity creates a superintelligent AI before solving the alignment problem, they believe extinction is not merely one possible outcome. It is the outcome we should expect.Yudkowsky and Soares build their case around the difference between traditional software and modern machine learning. Advanced AI systems are trained rather than explicitly programmed line by line, which means capabilities and internal…
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