This may be the best non-fiction book I have read in a decade or more. Extremely though provoking! The authors do not pull any punches with their ideas, especially the moral relativism seen in Silicon Valley these days. For example, how is it more moral to focus your work as a company on getting children to click on your videos or ads, than it is to work for the defense department to ensure the country is protected against bad actors like Russia or China?
Bad actors are already weaponizing AI and if we continue to sit on our hands in the name of peace, we will be dominated by them and peace will be lost. This book has a lot of that in it, but also offers a lot of hope!
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