AI risk Concepts

This Is for Everyone: The Captivating Memoir From the Inventor of the World Wide Web

by Tim Berners-Lee · 8 Sep 2025 · 347pp · 100,038 words

community who find such speculations far-fetched. We’ve heard from Marc Andreessen. For his part, machine-learning pioneer Andrew Ng has compared discussion of AI risk to worrying about overpopulation on Mars. But there are others, including some of the world’s most eminent computer scientists, who are beginning to worry

Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence

by Stuart Armstrong · 1 Feb 2014 · 48pp · 12,437 words

Oxford. FHI is dedicated to analyzing and reducing all existential risks—risks that could drive humanity to extinction or dramatically curtail its potential, of which AI risk is just one example. Bostrom is currently finishing a scholarly monograph about machine superintelligence, to be published by Oxford University Press. (This book’s author

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issues. The challenge is that, at the moment, we are far from having powerful AI and so it feels slightly ridiculous to warn people about AI risks when your current program may, on a good day, choose the right verb tense in a translated sentence. Still, by raising the issue, by pointing

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at least prepare the community to be receptive when their software starts reaching beyond the human level of intelligence. This is a short book about AI risk, but it is important to remember the opportunities of powerful AI, too. Allow me to close with a hopeful paragraph from a paper by Luke

Thinking Machines: The Inside Story of Artificial Intelligence and Our Race to Build the Future

by Luke Dormehl · 10 Aug 2016 · 252pp · 74,167 words

says in a YouTube video that went viral after attracting the attention of Reddit users. DiGiorgio’s story hardly represents the kind of potentially catastrophic AI risk we’ve been describing so far in this chapter. It is a far cry from AIs seizing control of the world’s nuclear weapons supply

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson · 15 May 2023 · 619pp · 177,548 words

only limited benefits. Additionally, the use of AI for workplace monitoring is not just boosting inequality but also disempowering workers. Worse, the current path of AI risks reversing decades of economic gains in the developing world by exporting automation globally. None of this is inevitable. In fact, this chapter argues that AI

The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism

by Calum Chace · 17 Jul 2016 · 477pp · 75,408 words

-sharing-economy-provide-good-jobs-1431288393 [cclxvi] https://www.edge.org/conversation/kevin_kelly-the-technium [cclxvii] https://www.singularityweblog.com/techemergence-surveys-experts-on-ai-risks/ [cclxviii] http://uk.businessinsider.com/social-skills-becoming-more-important-as-robots-enter-workforce-2015-12 [cclxix] http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/automated-teller

The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (And Who Benefits)

by Maximilian Kasy · 15 Jan 2025 · 209pp · 63,332 words

Us All: But He Still Wants the World to Use It.” CNN, October 31, 2023. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/31/tech/sam-altman-ai-risk-taker/index.html. Milmo, D., and K. Stacey. “‘It’s Not Clear We Can Control It’: What They Said at the Bletchley Park AI Summit

Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation

by Kevin Roose · 9 Mar 2021 · 208pp · 57,602 words

of them—had at least some near-term risk of automation. Workers with bachelor’s or graduate degrees were nearly four times as exposed to AI risk as workers with only a high school degree. Some of the most automation-prone jobs, the study found, were in highly paid occupations in major

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

by Nicholas Carr · 28 Jan 2025 · 231pp · 85,135 words

comment about “civilization destruction” during a Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson on April 17, 2023. 10.“Statement on AI Risk,” Center for AI Safety, May 30, 2023, https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk. 11.Cade Metz, “He’s Not Worried, But He Knows You Are,” New York Times, April 2, 2023

The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity

by Tim Wu · 4 Nov 2025 · 246pp · 65,143 words

/ai-chatbots-energy-usage-of-2023s-most-popular-chatbots-so-far/. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 14 “Statement on AI Risk,” Center for AI Safety, May 30, 2024, https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 15 Rakesh Kochhar, “Which U.S. Workers Are More Exposed to AI on Their

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI

by Yuval Noah Harari · 9 Sep 2024 · 566pp · 169,013 words

Century’s Greatest Dilemma, with Michael Bhaskar (New York: Crown, 2023); Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk (London: Simon & Schuster, 2023). 17. Yoshua Bengio et al., “Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress,” Science (forthcoming). 18. Katja Grace et al., “Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI,” (Preprint, submitted in

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of Machine Learning,” 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), IEEE, Sept. 30, 2022, doi.10.1109/IJCNN55064.2022.9891914; Bengio et al., “Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress.” 45. Kwang W. Jeon, The Biology of Amoeba (London: Academic Press, 1973). 46. International Energy Agency, “Data Centers and

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: Anchor, 2022), 197–216. 68. Brinkmann et al., “Machine Culture.” 69. Suleyman, Coming Wave, 164. 70. Brinkmann et al., “Machine Culture”; Bengio et al., “Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress.” CHAPTER 9: DEMOCRACIES: CAN WE STILL HOLD A CONVERSATION? 1. Andreessen, “Why AI Will Save the World.”; Ray Kurzweil

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Globalism and Embraced Patriotism,’ ” Aug. 7, 2020, trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/articles/president-trump-we-have-rejected-globalism-and-embraced-patriotism/. 44. Bengio et al., “Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress.” 45. John Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001), 21. See also Hans