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Superintelligence English Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Bostrom, Nick

Superintelligence Paths, Dangers, Strategies English - Oxford Oxford University Press 2014

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. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful - possibly beyond our control. As the fate of the gorillas now depends more on humans than on the species itself, so would the fate of humankind depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence.

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