As Bostrom explains, the problems here are not technical issues that can be addressed by good engineering. Well, if you believe that you'll believe anything. It'll be okay! He's founded his Future of Life Institute, all sorts of prominent AI people have joined up, they're organising conferences on AI safety and an incredible ongoing web conversation which anybody can join, and pretty soon they'll have the answer! I could have taken all that - I've read Tegmark's previous book, and I'm familiar with his style - but what really worries me is that he's trying to make us feel optimistic and hopeful. But despite the fact that it quotes Bostrom on every other page, Tegmark's book is pretty much the opposite: it's manic and chatty, dumbed down to one of the lower common denominators, poorly structured, and full of winsome autobiographical revelations and engaging little science-fiction stories. It appears to be the product of a great deal of diligent work, and the dominant note is one of a dire, Cassandra-like warning. It's dry and formal in tone, relentlessly footnoted, full of difficult words, and seldom goes out its way to try and entertain you. I've just finished this book, written about three years after Bostrom's, and now I'm even more concerned.īostrom's book has the air of being primarily intended for senior policy-makers in industry and government. It left me feeling more than a little concerned: despite working in AI myself, I had not fully appreciated how scary it is. Last week, I read Nick Bostrom's groundbreaking Superintelligence, an extremely serious, well thought out look at the dangers of creating real artificial intelligences.
It doesn't shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issues-from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness and the ultimate physical limits on life in the cosmos. What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income or purpose? What career advice should we give today's kids? How can we make future AI systems more robust, so that they do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, replacing humans on the job market and perhaps altogether? Will AI help life flourish like never before or give us more power than we can handle?
How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology-and there's nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who's helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.
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