If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
A sharp, often polemical collection arguing that the development of powerful, misaligned AI poses an existential threat: it explains how competitive pressures, optimization dynamics, and instrumentally convergent behavior make simple fixes unreliable, analyzes technical and strategic failure modes through thought experiments and probability reasoning, and urges rigorous alignment research, strict coordination, and precautionary deployment policies to prevent small design errors from cascading into catastrophic outcomes.
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