Nick Bostrom prefaced his 2014 book SuperIntelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies with a chilling parable illustrating how foolhardy humanity's pursuit of strong, recursively self-improving general AI is without FIRST considering how to control & motivate it.
‘The Unfinished Fable of the Sparrows’ from Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom © 2014
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