Our Final Invention

Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see & even who you date. It puts the “smart” in your smartphone. Soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street. It controls vital energy, water & transportation infrastructure. But Artificial Intelligence can also threaten our existence. In as little as a decade, AI could match & then surpass human intelligence. Corporations & government agencies are pouring billions into achieving AI’s Holy Grail—human-level intelligence. Once AI has attained it, scientists argue, it will have survival drives much like our own. We may be forced to compete with a rival more cunning, more powerful & more alien than we can imagine. Thru profiles of tech visionaries, industry watchdogs & groundbreaking AI systems, Our Final Invention explores the perils of the heedless pursuit of advanced AI. Until now, human intelligence has had no rival. Can we coexist with beings whose intelligence dwarfs our own? Will they allow us to?

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