However, when it was first published, in 2014, in aroused a deal of interest because of the rather horrendous scenario attributed to it by popular journalism, of a future dominated by intelligent robots that had taken over the world as a result of being able to design and produce ever more intelligent versions of themselves. The author is a philosopher, director of the Future of Humanity Institute in the University of Oxford, and he has not produced anything that could be described as 'popular science'. When the author's acknowledgements begin with the sentence, ' The membrane that has surrounded the writing process has been fairly permeable', you can probably guess that this book is not an easy read. Superintelligence: paths, dangers, strategies Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
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