I enjoyed most of IABIED — LessWrong

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I think the first two parts of the book are the best available explanation of the basic case for AI misalignment risk for a general audience. I thought the last part was pretty bad, and probably recommend skipping it. Even though the authors fail to address counterarguments that I think are crucial, and as a result I am not persuaded of the book’s thesis and think the book neglects to discuss crucial aspects of the situation and makes poor recommendations, I would happily recommend the book to a lay audience and I hope that more people read it. I can't give an overall assessment of how well this book will achieve its goals. The point of the book is to be well-received by people who don't know much about AI, and I’m not very good at predicting how laypeople will respond to it; seems like results so far are mixed leaning positive. So I’ll just talk about whether I think the arguments in the book are reasonable enough that I want them to be persuasive to the target audience, rather than w

x I enjoyed most of IABIED — LessWrong IABIED AI Frontpage 2025 Top Fifty: 8 % 211 I enjoyed most of IABIED by Buck 17th Sep 2025 9 min read 46 211 I listened to "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" today. I think the first two parts of the book are the best available explanation of the basic case for AI misalignment risk for a general audience. I thought the last part was pretty bad, and probably recommend skipping it. Even though the authors fail to address counterarguments that I think are crucial, and as a result I am not persuaded of the book’s thesis and think the book neglects to discus

I enjoyed most of IABIED — LessWrong

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