Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

A world-leading artificial intelligence researcher explains why uncontrolled superhuman AI represents an existential threat to humanity, and lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to coexist successfully with increasingly intelligent machines

In the popular imagination, superhuman artificial intelligence is an approaching tidal wave that threatens not just jobs and human relationships, but civilization itself. Conflict between humans and machines is seen as inevitable and its outc...