In the Ideal Gifts series, The Next Web team shares personal recommendations for gifts to give this holiday season. No single book has inspired me this year more than Our Final Invention, a book by documentary maker James Barrat. This book is a really accessible guide to the argument that artificial intelligence will eventually become ‘super-intelligence’ and kill us all. That may sound like something from a Terminator movie, but it’s a threat that increasing numbers of people are taking seriously. If annihilation-by-AI is a topic you’ve never thought much about, this is a great place to start. It starts by explaining…
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