Similarly my own views are the result of a wealth of material not summarisable in a HN comment. I intend to read the book, although I&#x27;m sceptical that AI will be established as an issue of political urgency.<p>The purpose of my facetious approach is to make clear that statements such as, &quot;Superintelligent AI would be godlike in power to us,&quot; are more likely to have originated by analogy to science fiction than from a grounded understanding of what is possible or realistic in the relevant future.<p>Being &quot;just algorithms&quot; doesn&#x27;t really mean very much. It&#x27;s like saying breeding the Alien is &quot;just genetics&quot;. It&#x27;s something we imagine might be possible, but is <i>far</i> beyond our current capabilities.