Obsolete:
The AI Industry’s Trillion Dollar Race to Replace Us―and How to Stop It
English
edition by Garrison Lovely (Author) Format: Paperback
Depending
on who you ask, artificial intelligence is our salvation or our doom; an
overhyped, bigoted hallucination machine or the ticket to immortality and
utopian abundance; just another tech fad or the last invention we need ever
make. The AI discourse is confusing, messy, and frustrating. But the technology
-- and our response to it -- will shape the future, whether or not we're part
of the conversation.
Obsolete
is for those who are interested in learning more about AI, but unsure of where
to start and who to believe. They may feel intimidated by the technical jargon,
put off by dry and abstract prose, or skeptical of the loudest voices on the
issue (like Elon Musk and Sam Altman). Obsolete will introduce readers to the
basics of AI, the idea that it could lead to human extinction, the roiling
three-sided debate surrounding extinction fears, and the people and companies
trying to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) -- that which can outwit
humans across the board. The book will grapple with the core arguments
animating the AI debates, which are, by turns, uncritically parroted and unduly
dismissed. It will also cut through industry hype while seriously entertaining
the implications of AGI.
The risk
that AGI could result in our extinction is being recognized by a significant
and growing number of leading AI researchers, industrialists, and policymakers,
along with the wider public. Existential risk from AI has been explored in
other books, but Obsolete will be the first to center its analysis on how both
capitalist and great power competition make AI more dangerous.
Obsolete
will also tackle questions like: Can machines actually outsmart humanity? If
so, when could that happen? If AGI is possible, is it inevitable? Why are
people trying to build a technology they claim could end the world? Is the idea
of AI-driven extinction the product of a big tech conspiracy aiming to hype the
technology and control its regulation? Why has the left mostly ignored or
dismissed existential risk from AI? Why do some powerful techies welcome human
extinction? How could AI enable stable authoritarian regimes? How could killer
robots reshape war and the balance of power? What do China and the US want from
AI? And why has it become the front line of their brewing Cold War? And
finally: What can and should the left do about it?
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