Yudkosky and Soares’ If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies centers around the idea that AI is unpredictable and has the ability to take complete control over us all. Taking a pessimistic view, Yudkowsky and Soares wholeheartedly believe that the development of Superintelligent AI can lead to the extinction of humanity as we know it. Understandably, this is an incredibly hard pill to swallow. Starting with chapter 3, the authors introduce us to the idea of AIs “learning to want”. While AIs will never have humanlike passions, as they continue to get smarter they will begin to behave like they want […]
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