Every book Daniel Kokotajlo recommended on podcasts

Books recommended by Daniel Kokotajlo

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   Superintelligence

   Nick Bostrom · Discussed · 1 episode

   Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom is a foundational exploration of artificial intelligence, examining the path toward human-level and superhuman machine intellect and the profound existential risks it poses.

   Discussed

   “I think the Alignment community did not really expect LLMs. I mean, if you look in Bostrom Superintelligence, there’s a discussion of Oracle AIs which are sort of like LLMs.”

   Dwarkesh Podcast AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexan… 2025-04-03 Listen at 1:31:40

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