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description: Artificial intelligence is our most powerful technology and in the coming decades it will change everything in our lives. If we get it right it will make humans almost godlike. If we get it wrong... well extinction is not the worst possible outcome.Surviving AI is a concise easy-to-read guide to what's coming taking you through technological unemployment (the economic singularity) and the possible creation of a superintelligence (the technological singularity).Here's what some of the leading thinkers in the field have to say about it:A sober and easy-to-read review of the risks and opportunities that humanity will face from AI. Jaan Tallinn  co-founder of Skype Understanding AI  its promise and its dangers  is emerging as one of the great challenges of coming decades and this is an invaluable guide to anyone whos interested confused excited or scared. David Shukman  BBC Science Editor We have recently seen a surge in the volume of scholarly analysis of this topic; Chace impressively augments that with this high-quality more general-audience discussion. Aubrey de Grey  CSO of SENS Research Foundation; former AI researcher It's rare to see a book about the potential End of the World that is fun to read without descending into sensationalism or crass oversimplification. Ben Goertzel  chairman of Novamente LLC Calum Chace is a prescient messenger of the risks and rewards of artificial intelligence. In Surviving AI he has identified the most essential issues and developed them with insight and wit  so that the very framing of the questions aids our search for answers. Chaces sensible balance between AIs promise and peril makes Surviving AI an excellent primer for anyone interested in whats happening how we got here and where we are headed. Kenneth Cukier  co-author of Big Data If youre not thinking about AI youre not thinking. Surviving AI combines an essential grounding in the state of the art with a survey of scenarios that will be discussed with equal vigor at cocktail parties and academic colloquia. Chris Meyer  author of Blur Its Alive and Standing on the Sun The appearance of Calum Chace's book is of some considerable personal satisfaction to me because it signifies the fact that the level of social awareness of the rise of massively intelligent machines has finally reached the mainstream. If you want to survive the next few decades you cannot afford NOT to read Chace's book. Prof. Dr. Hugo de Garis  former director of the Artificial Brain Lab Xiamen University China Surviving AI is an exceptionally clear well-researched and balanced introduction to a complex and controversial topic and is a compelling read to boot. Sen  higeartaigh  executive director of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk In Surviving AI Calum Chace provides a marvellously accessible guide to the swirls of controversy that surround discussion of what is likely to be the single most important event in human history - the emergence of artificial super
language: English
title: Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence
publisher: Three Cs