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Kissinger’s Last Book Warns of AI Enhanced “Superhumans” Controlling the World

Washington Times

Humanity must begin preparations to no longer be in charge of Earth because of artificial intelligence, according to a new book from the late statesman Henry Kissinger and a pair of the country’s leading technologists.

The rise of AI creating “superhuman” people is a major topic of concern in “Genesis,” published Tuesday by Little, Brown and Company. It’s the “last book” from Kissinger, according to the publisher’s parent company Hachette. Kissinger was a longtime U.S. diplomat and strategist who died last year at age 100.

Kissinger’s co-authors, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and longtime Microsoft senior executive Craig Mundie, finished the combined work after Kissinger’s death, and The Washington Times has obtained an advance copy. Mr. Schmidt and Mr. Mundie wrote they were among the last people to speak with Kissinger and sought to honor his dying request to finish the manuscript. More

7 Comments on Kissinger’s Last Book Warns of AI Enhanced “Superhumans” Controlling the World

  1. I always remember the story about a guy at a party talking politics with a friend saying: “Didja hear the story about Nixon’s wife and that guy Henry… ah… snaps his fingers like he’s trying to remember the last name when his buddy says: “Kissinger?”
    The guy looks at him and sez: “Nooo, Fukiner!!”

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