Superintelligence : paths, dangers, strategies / Nick Bostrom, Director, Future of Humanity Institute Professor, Faculty of Philosophy & Oxford Martin School University of Oxford.
1. Past Developments and Present Capabilities -- 2. Paths to Superintelligence -- 3. Forms of Superintelligence -- 4. The kinetics of intelligence explosion -- 5. Decisive Strategic Advantage -- 6. Cognitive Superpowers -- 7. The Superintelligent Will -- 8. Is the Default Outcome Doom? -- 9. The Control Problem -- 10. Oracles, Genies, Sovereigns, Tools -- 11. Multipolar Scenarios -- 12. Acquiring Values -- 13. Choosing the criteria for choosing -- 14. The Strategic Picture -- 15. Crunch Time.
Summary
This profoundly ambitious and original book picks its way carefully through a vast tract of forbiddingly difficult intellectual terrain.