"Worth reading." -- Elon Musk, Founder of SpaceX and Tesla
"I highly recommend this book" -- Bill Gates
"very deep ... every paragraph has like six ideas embedded within it." -- Nate Silver
"Nick Bostrom makes a persuasive case that the future impact of AI is perhaps the most important issue the human race has ever faced. Instead of passively drifting, we need to steer a course.
Superintelligence charts the submerged rocks of the future with unprecedented detail. It marks the beginning of a new era." -- Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkley
"Those disposed to dismiss an 'AI takeover' as science fiction may think again after reading this original and well-argued book." -- Martin Rees, Past President, Royal Society
"This superb analysis by one of the world's clearest thinkers tackles one of humanity's greatest challenges: if future superhuman artificial intelligence becomes the biggest event in human history, then how can we ensure that it doesn't become the last?" -- Professor Max Tegmark, MIT
"Terribly important ... groundbreaking... extraordinary sagacity and clarity, enabling him to combine his wide-ranging knowledge over an impressively broad spectrum of disciplines - engineering, natural sciences, medicine, social sciences and philosophy - into a comprehensible whole... If this book gets the reception that it deserves, it may turn out the most important alarm bell since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring from 1962, or ever." -- Olle Haggstrom, Professor of Mathematical Statistics
"Valuable. The implications of introducing a second intelligent species onto Earth are far-reaching enough to deserve hard thinking" --
The Economist"There is no doubting the force of [Bostrom's] arguments...the problem is a research challenge worthy of the next generation's best mathematical talent. Human civilisation is at stake." -- Clive Cookson,
Financial Times"His book
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies became an improbable bestseller in 2014" -- Alex Massie,
Times (Scotland)"Ein Text so nüchtern und cool, so angstfrei und dadurch umso erregender, dass danach das, was bisher vor allem Filme durchgespielt haben, auf einmal höchst plausibel erscheint. A text so sober and cool, so fearless and thus all the more exciting that what has until now mostly been acted through in films, all of a sudden appears most plausible afterwards. (translated from German)" -- Georg Diez, DER SPIEGEL
"Worth reading.... We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes" -- Elon Musk, Founder of SpaceX and Tesla
"A damn hard read" --
Sunday Telegraph"I recommend
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom as an excellent book on this topic" -- Jolyon Brown, Linux Format
"Every intelligent person should read it." -- Nils Nilsson, Artificial Intelligence Pioneer, Stanford University
"An intriguing mix of analytic philosophy, computer science and cutting-edge science fiction, Nick Bostrom's
Superintelligence is required reading for anyone seeking to make sense of the recent surge of interest in artificial intelligence (AI)." -- Colin Garvey, Icon
