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Tech billionaires are making a dangerous guess with humanity’s future
Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and others might have barely totally different targets, however their grand visions for the subsequent decade and past are remarkably comparable.
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 attain 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 know-how can resolve any drawback, a perception within the necessity of perpetual development, and a quasi-religious obsession with transcending our bodily and organic limits.
In his well timed new ebook, Extra The whole lot 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.