People keep misunderstanding this. I CONTRIBUTED to Bostrom’s Superintelligence book and he thanks me by name in the foreword.
I was thinking about AI safety long before 2014.
Elon Musk posted this back in 2014 after reading Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence:
“Worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes”
That was more than 12 years ago....long before the current AI boom
The book explores what happens when machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence, the existential risks that follow and the enormous challenge of keeping superintelligence aligned with humanity
Elon was sounding the alarm on this years before AI safety became mainstream....when most people barely understood what superintelligence even meant
Today we now have a clear understanding that AI will become the most powerful technology humanity has ever created
Making sure it remains aligned with humanity matters more than anything else