Chapter 6
We’d Lose
This is the online resource for Chapter 6 of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Topics we’ve skipped on this page (because they’re in the book) include:
- How could AI beat humanity in a fight?
- How can AI threaten us when it’s stuck inside a computer?
- Aren’t you imagining impossible sci-fi technology? Even a superintelligence can’t break the laws of physics.
- Wouldn’t it take a superintelligence a long time to develop a decisive technological advantage?
Below we expand on why it’s a dicey affair to try to counter, contain, or keep up with superintelligent AIs, and we consider some of the technologies an advanced AI might realistically develop.