Human Compatible: A timely warning on the future of AI

Welcome to AI book reviews, a series of posts that explore the latest literature on artificial intelligence. The late Stephen Hawking called artificial intelligence the biggest threat to humanity. But Hawking, albeit a revered physicist, was not a computer scientist. Elon Musk compared AI adoption to "summoning the devil." But Elon is, well, Elon. And there are dozens of movies that depict a future in which robots and artificial intelligence go berserk.