This is a review of Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI, a collection of 25 contributions edited by John Brockman. Evan Selinger writes that while the contributors "have lots of smart, multidisciplinary things to say about software and society, they mostly underplay or quickly move past the supersized consequences of supersized corporate ambitions." The answer is prehaps suggested by one of the contributors, Ted Chiang. "Billionaires like Bill Gates and Elon Musk assume that a superintelligent AI will stop at nothing to achieve its goals," Chiang declares, "because that's the attitude they adopted."
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