The AI Does Not Hate You

The AI Does Not Hate You The Rationalists and Their Quest to Save the World

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Publisher's Synopsis

'Beautifully written, and with wonderful humour, this is a thrilling adventure story of our own future' Lewis Dartnell, author of The Knowledge and Origins

'The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made of atoms which it can use for something else'


This is a book about AI and AI risk. But it's also more importantly about a community of people who are trying to think rationally about intelligence, and the places that these thoughts are taking them, and what insight they can and can't give us about the future of the human race over the next few years. It explains why these people are worried, why they might be right, and why they might be wrong. It is a book about the cutting edge of our thinking on intelligence and rationality right now by the people who stay up all night worrying about it.

Along the way, we discover why we probably don't need to worry about a future AI resurrecting a perfect copy of our minds and torturing us for not inventing it sooner, but we perhaps should be concerned about paperclips destroying life as we know it; how Mickey Mouse can teach us an important lesson about how to program AI; and how a more rational approach to life could be what saves us all.

Book information

ISBN: 9781474608770
Publisher: Orion
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub date:
DEWEY: 006.3
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 292
Weight: 410g
Height: 217mm
Width: 138mm
Spine width: 29mm