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We are creating a non-biological form of intelligence that, at its seed, is a replica of the masculine geek mind. In its infancy it is being assigned the mission of enabling the capitalist, imperialist ambitions of the few - selling, spying, killing and gambling.

It's interesting to compare this book with If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Despite the fact that Gawdat is writing several years earlier, he strikes me as much more in touch with the realities of the situation: it's too late to stop superintelligence from happening, a capitalist society doesn't work that way. Our only option is to figure out how to deal with it.