If anyone builds it, everyone dies : why superhuman AI would kill us all / Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares.
| Author/creator | Yudkowsky, Eliezer, 1979- author. |
| Other author | Soares, Nate, author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xii, 259 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Why superhuman AI would kill us all |
| Contents | Introduction: Hard calls and easy calls -- Nonhuman minds. Humanity's special power -- Grown, not crafted -- Learning to want -- You don't get what you train for -- Its favorite things -- We'd lose -- One extinction scenario. Realization -- Expansion -- Ascension -- Coda -- Facing the challenge. A cursed problem -- An alchemy, not a science -- "I don't want to be alarmist" -- Shut it down -- Where there's life, there's hope -- Closing words. |
| Abstract | "In 2023, hundreds of AI luminaries signed an open letter warning that artificial intelligence poses a serious risk of human extinction. Since then, the AI race has only intensified. Companies and countries are rushing to build machines that will be smarter than any person. And the world is devastatingly unprepared for what would come next. For decades, two signatories of that letter - Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares - have studied how smarter-than-human intelligences will think, behave, and pursue their objectives. Their research says that sufficiently smart AIs will develop goals of their own that put them in conflict with us - and that if it comes to conflict, an artificial superintelligence would crush us. The contest wouldn't even be close. How could a machine superintelligence wipe out our entire species? Why would it want to? Would it want anything at all? In this urgent book, Yudkowsky and Soares walk through the theory and the evidence, present one possible extinction scenario, and explain what it would take for humanity to survive. The world is racing to build something truly new under the sun. And if anyone builds it, everyone dies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Includes QR codes with URLs at the end of each chapter linking to a supplemental website (IfAnyoneBuildsIt.com) with more information expanding on that chapter. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-252) and index. |
| Genre/form | Informational works. |
| Genre/form | Documents d'information. |
| LCCN | 2025938106 |
| ISBN | 9780316595643 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0316595640 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780316601115 international paperback |
| ISBN | 031660111X international paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | Q335 .Y83 2025 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |