Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era Barrat James (2023)

I wish it was science fiction, but I know its not, says Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype. Corporations and government agencies around the world have spent years investing billions in the pursuit of AIs Holy Grail: human-level intelligence. Once AI achieves it, scientists argue, it may develop survival drives much like our own, forcing us to compete with a rival more cunning, powerful and alien than we can imagine. First published ten years ago, Our Final Invention predicted much of the artificial intelligence explosion now transforming our culture and was named by Elon Musk as one of five books everyone should read about the future. With an urgent new preface, James Barrats landmark work explores the ethics, history and future dangers of the heedless pursuit of advanced AI. Can humans coexist with beings whose intelligence dwarfs our own, and will those beings allow us to?