I'm surprised no one has mentioned Nick Bostrom's book, "Superintelligence", which directly covers this topic. The thinkers you cite: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Nick Bostrom's book, "Superintelligence", which directly covers this topic. The thinkers you cite: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, (and possibly, Putin) have derived much of their current fears/hopes about AI from Bostrom's seminal work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dangers,_Strategies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dang...