If you are one of those people who jump awake in the middle of a night and tear your hair worrying about a future in which red-eyed robot humanoids march through the world enslaving humans, this book is for you.
It is structured as an account of the work of an American group in the Silicon Valley, California, who call themselves "Rationalists', led by "the strange, irascible and brilliant" Eliezer Yudkowsky, whose mission is to save mankind from the wrong kind of Artificial Intelligence.
This book also opened my eyes to the existence of the many well-funded institutions throughout the world with