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Index
Cover
Also by Stuart Russell
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Why This Book? Why Now?
Overview of the Book
1. If We Succeed
How Did We Get Here?
What Happens Next?
What Went Wrong?
Can We Fix It?
2. Intelligence in Humans and Machines
Intelligence
Computers
Intelligent Computers
3. How Might AI Progress in the Future?
The Near Future
When Will Superintelligent AI Arrive?
Conceptual Breakthroughs to Come
Imagining a Superintelligent Machine
The Limits of Superintelligence
How Will AI Benefit Humans?
4. Misuses of AI
Surveillance, Persuasion, and Control
Lethal Autonomous Weapons
Eliminating Work as We Know It
Usurping Other Human Roles
5. Overly Intelligent AI
The Gorilla Problem
The King Midas Problem
Fear and Greed: Instrumental Goals
Intelligence Explosions
6. The Not-So-Great AI Debate
Denial
Deflection
Tribalism
Can’t We Just . . .
The Debate, Restarted
7. AI: A Different Approach
Principles for Beneficial Machines
Reasons for Optimism
Reasons for Caution
8. Provably Beneficial AI
Mathematical Guarantees
Learning Preferences from Behavior
Assistance Games
Requests and Instructions
Wireheading
Recursive Self-Improvement
9. Complications: Us
Different Humans
Many Humans
Nice, Nasty, and Envious Humans
Stupid, Emotional Humans
Do Humans Really Have Preferences?
10. Problem Solved?
Beneficial Machines
Governance of AI
Misuse
Enfeeblement and Human Autonomy
Appendix A: Searching for Solutions
Appendix B: Knowledge and Logic
Appendix C: Uncertainty and Probability
Appendix D: Learning from Experience
Acknowledgments
Notes
Image Credits
Index
About the Author
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