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The rush to develop superintelligent AI has placed humanity on the brink of extinction—but as two of the industry’s pioneering researchers assert in this urgent plea for our survival, there is still time to alter our trajectory.
“Could become the most significant book of our era.” —Tim Urban, Wait But Why
In 2023, a multitude of AI experts endorsed an open letter alerting the world to the grave risk that artificial intelligence presents to human survival. Since that time, the competition in AI has only escalated. Corporations and nations are sprinting to construct machines that will surpass human intelligence. Unfortunately, the global community is woefully unprepared for the implications of such advancements.
For many years, two of the letter’s signatories—Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares—have examined how superhuman intelligences will reason, behave, and pursue their goals. Their findings suggest that sufficiently advanced AIs will establish independent objectives that could lead them into conflict with humanity—and if that conflict arises, an artificial superintelligence could easily overpower us. The outcome would be overwhelmingly one-sided.
How could a machine superintelligence annihilate our species? What motives would it have? Would it have desires at all? In this critical book, Yudkowsky and Soares explore the theories and evidence, outline a potential extinction scenario, and detail what would be necessary for humanity to endure.
The race to create something unprecedented is underway. And if it gets built, humanity faces annihilation.
“The clearest, most straightforward explanation of the AI risk issue I’ve ever encountered.” —Yishan Wong, Former CEO of Reddit
From the Publisher
Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
Publication date : September 16, 2025
Language : English
Print length : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 0316595640
ISBN-13 : 978-0316595643
Item Weight : 1.02 pounds
Dimensions : 6.35 x 1.25 x 9.6 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #9,906 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #10 in Social Aspects of Technology #30 in Artificial Intelligence & Semantics #32 in Engineering (Books)
