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There is a great book about this, published in 2014, called "superintelligence" by Nick Bostrom, i found it very serious and detailed. (It also felt like reading 100 sci-fy books in one)

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Can you elaborate on that?

What points was the book making?

I'll be honest I read it a long time ago, and not even in its entirety, so I don't remember exactly all the different ways it suggested AI could take over, but I remember being convinced it was definitively a possibility, and that there were many ways in which this could happen. What I remember clearly is how surprised I was to see these(what felt at the time) unlikely futures being expressed in such clear detail and with so many references to existing literature, just to give an idea there are 56 pages of small-font "footnotes".

Also just to clarify, the book talked about different types of AI, was not focused just on LLMs.

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