It's an okay book but there isn't really anything in it that you couldn't infer after you've read the first 10%. A lot of common sense warnings about risks from

It's an okay book but there isn't really anything in it that you couldn't infer after you've read the first 10%. A lot of common sense warnings about risks from AI, bioweaopns, cyberattacks etc but it's all very generic. There's no chapter in it that I found had any genuine insight. An interesting chapter would have been "what if I'm completely wrong and all we get is a bunch of meme generators and the next bubble", but that never appears to be a possibility. It's oddly enough the case with a lot of books that end up on Gates recommended lists. I saw someone recently say, maybe a bit too mean, that we might make it to AGI because Yuval Noah Harari keeps writing books that more and more look like they're written by ChatGPT and it's not entirely untrue for a lot of the stuff Gates recommends.