THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The most important book of the decade' MAX TEGMARK
author of Life 3.0 'A loud trumpet call to humanity to awaken us as we sleepwalk into
disaster - we must wake up' STEPHEN FRY 'The best no-nonsense simple explanation of the AI
risk problem I've ever read' YISHAN WONG former Reddit CEO AI is the greatest threat to our
existence that we have ever faced. The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the
path to extinction - but it's not too late to change course. Two pioneering researchers in the
field Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares explain why artificial superintelligence would be a
global suicide bomb and call for an immediate halt to its development. The technology may be
complex but the facts are simple: companies and countries are in a race to build machines that
will be smarter than any person and the world is devastatingly unprepared for what will come
next. Could a machine superintelligence wipe out our entire species? Would it want to? Would
it want anything at all? In this urgent book Yudkowsky and Soares explore 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 - and if anyone builds it
everyone dies. *A GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR*
