The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction—but it's not too late to change course, as two of the field's earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity.
The book reads like a Scientology manual, the text interspersed with weird, unhelpful parables and extra notes available via QR codes ... Following their unspooling tangents evokes the feeling of being locked in a room with the most annoying students you met in college while they try mushrooms for the first time.
Tendentious and rambling, simultaneously condescending and shallow ... They are just wrong ... Yudkowsky and Soares fail to make an evidence-based scientific case for their claims. Instead, they rely on flat assertions and shaky analogies.
Well timed ... As clear as its conclusions are hard to swallow. Where the discussions become more technical, mainly in passages dealing with AI model training and architecture, it’s still straightforward enough for readers to grasp the basic facts ... Yudkowsky and Soares present their case with such conviction that it’s easy to emerge from this book ready to cancel your pension contributions ... Whatever the case, it feels like everyone with an interest in the future has a duty to read what he and Soares have to say.
