If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Since I can’t update this on the home screen, I’ll update here. This book is due in two days. I already have it on hold, as I may not finish it this round. I can’t read it at night. As a nonfiction book, it is scary as heck! I’m at 45% so far.
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I wrote the above statement the first time I checked out the audiobook from Libby. I could only read it during the day. So when I could renew it, I finished the book. I already thought I’d need to renew it again. But I managed. It was due today.
Science fiction is my favorite genre. I have seen enough movies and read enough books to have a healthy respect for AI, robots, and the like. But this book is NONfiction and is the scariest thing I have ever read. It is not doom and gloom, but a strong suggestion that we be careful as we move forward with this science. Please read it. And if you have any influence on engineers or computer people, share the cautions this book offers.
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