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"A greyhound catching the mechanical lure—what would he actually do with it?  Has he given this any thought? Bostrom’s previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies changed the global conversation on AI and became a New York Times bestseller.  It focused on what might happen if AI development goes wrong.  But what if things go right? Suppose that we develop superintelligence safely, govern it well, and make good use of the cornucopian wealth and near magical technological powers that this technology can unlock.  If this transition to the machine intelligence era goes well, human labor becomes obsolete.  We would thus enter a condition of ""post-instrumentality"", in which our efforts are not needed for any practical purpose.  Furthermore, at technological maturity, human nature becomes entirely malleable. Here we confront a challenge that is not technological but philosophical and spiritual.  In such a solved world, what is the point of human existence?  What gives meaning to life?  What do we do all day? Deep Utopia shines new light on these old questions, and gives us glimpses of a different kind of existence, which might be ours in the future."

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"""Wow!"" — Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University; Co-author of The Second Machine Age ""A really fun, and important, book... the writing is brilliant... incredibly rich... a constant parade of fascinating ideas."" — Professor Guy Kahane, University of Oxford ""Brilliant! Hilarious, poignant, insightful, clever, important."" — Professor Thaddeus Metz, University of Pretoria, author of Meaning in Life"

"""I highly recommend this book.""--Bill Gates ""very deep ... every paragraph has like six ideas embedded within it.""--Nate Silver ""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 ""Nick Bostrom makes a persuasive case that the future impact of AI is perhaps the most important issue the human race has ever faced. ... It marks the beginning of a new era.""--Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley ""Worth reading.... We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes"" --Elon Musk ""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."" --Financial Times ""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"

"""Wow!"" — Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University; Co-author of The Second Machine Age ""Yeah"" — Elon Musk ""A major contribution to human thought and ways of thinking."" — Robert Lawrence Kuhn ""A really fun, and important, book... the writing is brilliant... incredibly rich... a constant parade of fascinating ideas."" — Professor Guy Kahane, University of Oxford ""Brilliant! Hilarious, poignant, insightful, clever, important."" — Professor Thaddeus Metz, University of Pretoria, author of Meaning in Life"

"""Wow!"" — Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University; Co-author of The Second Machine Age ""A major contribution to human thought and ways of thinking."" — Robert Lawrence Kuhn ""A really fun, and important, book... the writing is brilliant... incredibly rich... a constant parade of fascinating ideas."" — Professor Guy Kahane, University of Oxford ""Brilliant! Hilarious, poignant, insightful, clever, important."" — Professor Thaddeus Metz, University of Pretoria, author of Meaning in Life"

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NICK BOSTROM is a Professor at Oxford University, where he is the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute.  Bostrom is the world’s most cited philosopher aged 50 or under.  He is the author of more than 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (2008), Human Enhancement (2009), and Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014), a New York Times bestseller which sparked a global conversation about the future of AI.  His work has pioneered many of the ideas that frame current thinking about humanity’s future (such as the concept of an existential risk, the simulation argument, the vulnerable world hypothesis, the unilateralist’s curse, etc.), while some of his recent work concerns the moral status of digital minds.  His writings have been translated into more than 30 languages; he is a repeat main-stage TED speaker; and he has been interviewed more than 1,000 times by media outlets around the world.  He has been on Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list twice and was included in Prospect’s World Thinkers list, the youngest person in the top 15.  He has an academic background in theoretical physics, AI, and computational neuroscience as well as philosophy.

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