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Paths, dangers, strategies by nick bostrom download superintelligence. Growth, degrowth, and the challenge of artificial superintelligence. Nick bostrom the human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. So, with apologies for being late getting to the party, heres my two cents. As the fate of the gorillas now depends more on us humans than on the gorillas themselves, so the fate of our species then would come to depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence. Only the clacking of a few final keystrokes punctuates the hum of a supercomputer.
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