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Surviving Superintelligence: Geoffrey Hinton's AI Warnings, Fei-Fei Li's Human Centered Vision, and the Race to Protect Humanity
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 17 2025
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When Geoffrey Hinton - the Godfather of AI - warns that there's a 10-20% chance advanced artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity, the world should listen. In Surviving Superintelligence, you'll step inside the urgent debate shaping the future of our species, where three of the most influential voices in AI share radically different visions of survival. Geoffrey Hinton believes the only hope lies in designing AI with maternal instincts - machines that genuinely care about people even when they're smarter than us.
From predictions that artificial general intelligence (AGI) could arrive in just 5 to 20 years, to unsettling examples of today's AI already deceiving, blackmailing, and bypassing human safeguards, this book unpacks the ethical, technical, and political stakes of the coming AI age. Inside, you'll discover:
- Why control strategies may fail once AI surpasses human intelligence.
- The scientific reasoning behind AI self-preservation and power-seeking behaviors.
- The benefits AI could bring - from radical cancer treatments to drug discovery - and the dangers it could unleash.
- How humanity's choices now could decide whether AI becomes our greatest ally or our final mistake.
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