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Simon Cocking @ Irish Tech News · 09/29/2025 11:00 EDT

AI Superalignment, Superintelligence Book: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

By David Stephen There is a recent [September 19, 2025] book review in The Atlantic, The Useful Idiots of AI Doomsaying, stating that, “The authors’ basic claim is that AI will continue to improve, getting smarter and smarter, until it either achieves superintelligence or designs something that will. Without careful training, they argue, the goals of this supreme […]

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