The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality and the Race to Save the World by Tom Chivers

3.75 AVERAGE

ellieje's review

3.0
informative medium-paced

baghaii's review

2.0
The problem with this book is that the title does not align with what the book is about very well. I had hoped that this book would be about AI, but it was more about the Rationalists and their concern about far future AI risk. It spent too much time on Less Wrong and Overcoming Bias and not enough time on actual AI.

One of the people that this book interviewed was Holden Karnofsky who is concerned with AI Risk and synthetic pandemics. I would imagine that Karnofsky would have a lot to say once we fell into a real pandemic. However, I am having trouble finding any work relevant to the current pandemic.

My problem with this book is that people concerned with far-future problems do not seem to be doing deep work that lends itself to near-future problems.

The author is overly generous with these folks because they have high-functioning autism. However, in real life, I do not see that spirit of generosity extended to autistic people who do not look like the people being interviewed for this book.

penguyn's review

4.75
challenging informative reflective medium-paced