| International Standard Book Number |
9781668061657
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668061651
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| Personal Name |
Wright, Robert, 1957- author.
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| Title Statement |
The god test : artificial intelligence and our coming cosmic reckoning / Robert Wright.
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| Publisher |
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
343 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent.
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia.
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
A blast from the future -- The great inversion -- The cosmic context -- The evolution of a large language model -- The elements of understanding -- The foundation of wild visions -- Intelligence and power -- Agency -- Evolutionary arms races -- AI heaven and AI hell -- Hive minds and the loss of control -- The singularity and the Singleton -- Gemini and Superman -- Enlightenment now -- Fredkin's mission -- Appendix: Evolution, purpose, and consciousness.
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| Summary, Etc. |
From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Wright comes the first book that sees AI not just as a technological tool with good and bad applications, but as an evolutionary force that will alter the trajectory of humanity itself. Written by one of our foremost public intellectuals, and informed by his decades of chronicling the digital age, the book boldly asserts that the current wave of AI progress is just the beginning. The changes we are about to witness will bring the most abruptly dramatic transformation in the history of our species. Wright provocatively suggests that to truly understand the significance of the AI revolution, we need to expand our perspective beyond the last century or even the whole history of technology and look back billions of years, across the entire history of life on Earth.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Technology and civilization.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Spiritual healing.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Artificial intelligence Social aspects.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Artificial intelligence Religious aspects.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works. lcgft.
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