Thanks for the comment. I have given my own view on this in the epilogue. The intention of this novel is to be a warning of what might happen if we continue to go blindly into the future the way we currently go. It is not a prediction that this will indeed happen exactly as described, and I don’t think that anyone expects that from a novel. My hopes lie in humanity finally getting a grip on reality and not doing stupid things, like building an uncontrollable AI. I have no hope that an uncontrollable AI will behave nicely by chance and very little hope that we will provably solve alignment before we can build one.
it’s probably worth adding a note to the novel somewhere people will see that it is not as hopeless as it might seem to imply.
Thanks for the comment. I have given my own view on this in the epilogue. The intention of this novel is to be a warning of what might happen if we continue to go blindly into the future the way we currently go. It is not a prediction that this will indeed happen exactly as described, and I don’t think that anyone expects that from a novel. My hopes lie in humanity finally getting a grip on reality and not doing stupid things, like building an uncontrollable AI. I have no hope that an uncontrollable AI will behave nicely by chance and very little hope that we will provably solve alignment before we can build one.