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If we are not careful, we will end up with downgraded humans misusing upgraded computers to wreak havoc on themselves and on the world.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Although sci-fi is replete with conscious human-like AI that shares human values, it’s clear by now that the space of possible alien minds is vastly larger than that. So if we stumble into an intelligence explosion rather than steer carefully, it’s likely that the resulting superintelligence will not only replace us, but also lack anything resembling human consciousness, compassion or morality – something we’ll view less as our worthy descendants than as an unstoppable plague.
The 'Don't Look Up' Thinking That Could Doom Us With AI
Max Tegmark
Software systems should separate the startup process, when the application objects are constructed and the dependencies are “wired” together, from the runtime logic that takes over after startup.
Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
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