Superintelligence paths, dangers, strategies

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains...

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Main Author: Bostrom, Nick, 1973- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Past developments and present capabilities
  • Paths to superintelligence
  • Forms of superintelligence
  • The kinetics of an intelligence explosion
  • Decisive strategic advantage
  • Cognitive superpowers
  • The superintelligent will
  • Is the default outcome doom?
  • The control problem
  • Oracles, genies, sovereigns, tools
  • Multipolar scenarios
  • Acquiring values
  • Choosing the criteria for choosing
  • The strategic picture
  • Crunch time.