Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom discusses the potential emergence and development of AGI. The author explores various paths that could lead to the rise of AGI, as well as the potential dangers associated with it. The main idea of the book is that superintelligence could be both a potential boon and a potential threat to humanity.
Other interesting, but not directly related to AI topics include:
1) Who and when “invented” GDP (not Vladimir Vladimirovich) and why it sometimes doesn’t work (for example, in the USSR with non-market prices).
2) About reducing working hours, but not in the way people usually think, through a reduction in weekly working hours, but rather through later starts to work (long training, etc.) and earlier retirement.
3) What is happening with the manufacturing market now is exactly the same as what happened with the food production market (2-3% of the population grows food for themselves and the remaining 97% of people on the planet). Manufacturing has already decreased from 20% to 10% and continues to decline. Overall, it’s interesting to think about what people will do in the future.
And much, much more. Bonus: a recommendation for the film “American Factory” - a documentary about the revival of the General Motors plant in Ohio by the Chinese company Fuyao Glass and the conflict between American and Chinese workers.