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Tech billionaires are making a dangerous wager with humanity’s future
Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and others could have barely totally different objectives, however their grand visions for the following decade and past are remarkably related.
They embody aligning AI with the pursuits of humanity; creating a man-made superintelligence that can resolve all of the world’s most urgent issues; merging with that superintelligence to realize immortality (or one thing near it); establishing a everlasting, self-sustaining colony on Mars; and, finally, spreading out throughout the cosmos.
Three options play a central position with powering these visions, says Adam Becker, a science author and astrophysicist: an unshakable certainty that expertise can resolve any downside, a perception within the necessity of perpetual progress, and a quasi-religious obsession with transcending our bodily and organic limits.
In his well timed new e-book, Extra Every part Endlessly: AI Overlords, House Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Campaign to Management the Destiny of Humanity, Becker reveals how these fantastical visions conceal a darker agenda. Learn the complete story.
