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  • Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

    James Barrat’s *Our Final Invention* is a fierce warning about artificial general intelligence: not killer robots, but self-improving systems whose goals, speed and incentives may outrun human control. Updated by a frightened 2023 preface, the book moves from the Busy Child thought experiment through Friendly AI, instrumental drives, the intelligence explosion, the Singularity, corporate and…

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