D. Scott Phoenix: The Second Law, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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'Scott is the real thing' Eric Schmidt, former CEO, Google

**'Provocative, rigorous, and profoundly important'**Marc Benioff, Co-founder, SalesForce

**'A rare combination of technical brilliance and deep moral clarity'**Reid Hoffman, Co-founder, LinkedIn

'**He earned his perspective the hard way: by actually creating the technology he's now helping us understand'**Reed Hastings, Co-founder, Netflix

AI's capabilities are compounding much faster than most people understand. Once its systems reach a certain threshold of autonomy, its creators will lose whatever leverage over it they have.

D. Scott Phoenix argues that AI is not an optional invention at all, but the inevitable outcome of the same pressures that have shaped the universe since the Big Bang. Once you take that as your starting point, the familiar conversation about safety and 'alignment' looks radically different.

Drawing on his own experience building one of the earliest AGI companies, Phoenix takes the reader from stars and cells to neural networks and autonomous systems. Artificial intelligence is part of a much longer story about energy, complexity, survival, and the universe itself.

Phoenix does not offer a utopian vision of upgraded humanity, nor a reassuring fantasy in which AI remains safely subordinate. He argues instead that integration is the most realistic path through the coming transition - and that our window for negotiating that relationship is closing fast.