Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is a 2014 book by philosopher Nick Bostrom that analyzes the potential development of superhuman artificial intelligence and the existential risks and strategic challenges it could pose to humanity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1528604 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies Context triple: [Nick Bostrom, notableWork, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies]
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The Intelligent Individual and Society
"The Intelligent Individual and Society" is a philosophical work by Nobel Prize–winning physicist Percy W. Bridgman that explores the role, responsibilities, and challenges of the rational individual within modern social and political structures.
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Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence is a speculative non-fiction book by James Lovelock that explores a future epoch dominated by superintelligent, self-evolving technologies and their relationship with humanity and the Earth.
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The Singularity Is Near
The Singularity Is Near is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the imminent rise of superintelligent machines and explores the profound technological, social, and philosophical implications of this transformation.
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How to Create a Mind
"How to Create a Mind" is a nonfiction book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the workings of human intelligence and proposes designs for advanced artificial intelligence based on the brain’s principles.
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E.
The Age of Intelligent Machines
The Age of Intelligent Machines is a 1990 book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the history, current state, and future implications of artificial intelligence and computing.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies Target entity description: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is a 2014 book by philosopher Nick Bostrom that analyzes the potential development of superhuman artificial intelligence and the existential risks and strategic challenges it could pose to humanity.
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A.
The Intelligent Individual and Society
"The Intelligent Individual and Society" is a philosophical work by Nobel Prize–winning physicist Percy W. Bridgman that explores the role, responsibilities, and challenges of the rational individual within modern social and political structures.
-
B.
Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence is a speculative non-fiction book by James Lovelock that explores a future epoch dominated by superintelligent, self-evolving technologies and their relationship with humanity and the Earth.
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C.
The Singularity Is Near
The Singularity Is Near is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the imminent rise of superintelligent machines and explores the profound technological, social, and philosophical implications of this transformation.
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D.
How to Create a Mind
"How to Create a Mind" is a nonfiction book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the workings of human intelligence and proposes designs for advanced artificial intelligence based on the brain’s principles.
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E.
The Age of Intelligent Machines
The Age of Intelligent Machines is a 1990 book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the history, current state, and future implications of artificial intelligence and computing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book about artificial intelligence
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non-fiction book ⓘ philosophy of technology book ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
analyze paths to superintelligence
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evaluate dangers of superintelligence ⓘ propose strategies for safe AI development ⓘ |
| author | Nick Bostrom ⓘ |
| authorAffiliation |
Future of Humanity Institute
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University of Oxford ⓘ |
| authorOccupation | philosopher ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
existential risks from advanced AI
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potential development of superhuman AI ⓘ strategies for managing AI risk ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| discussesConcept |
AI governance
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AI takeoff scenarios ⓘ control problem in AI ⓘ instrumental convergence ⓘ intelligence explosion ⓘ orthogonality thesis ⓘ singleton scenario ⓘ value alignment problem ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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philosophy ⓘ science ⓘ |
| influencedField |
AI policy and governance debates
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AI safety research ⓘ existential risk studies ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| notableFor | popularizing AI existential risk concerns ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| publisher | Oxford University Press ⓘ |
| riskTypeDiscussed |
existential risk to humanity
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global catastrophic risk ⓘ |
| structure | divided into sections on paths, dangers, and strategies ⓘ |
| subject |
AI safety
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artificial intelligence ⓘ existential risk ⓘ long-term future of humanity ⓘ superintelligence ⓘ technology ethics ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general educated readers
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policy makers ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| timeHorizonDiscussed | long-term future scenarios ⓘ |
| title | Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies self-link ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies Description of subject: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is a 2014 book by philosopher Nick Bostrom that analyzes the potential development of superhuman artificial intelligence and the existential risks and strategic challenges it could pose to humanity.
Referenced by (4)
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