# Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014)

> Bostrom's "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies" brings the control problem to presidents, founders and the public. Sources linked.

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# Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014)

Bostrom's "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies" brings the control problem to presidents, founders and the public.

Date
:   2014

Type
:   Milestone

Status
:   Happened

Era
:   2014

## What happened

Bostrom's "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies" brings the control problem to presidents, founders and the public.

## Why it matters

The book set out the control problem, instrumental convergence and the orthogonality thesis for a general audience, and drew public endorsements from technology leaders. Much of today's vocabulary of SI risk comes from it.

## Source

1. [Oxford University Press](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/superintelligence-9780199678112)

## On the timeline

This event is one of 20 milestones on the [RSI timeline](https://enterrsi.si/timeline/), from 1950 to SI building SI.

The event

Date
:   July 3, 2014

Type
:   Timeline milestone

Related terms

[Control problem **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/control-problem/)[Instrumental convergence **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/instrumental-convergence/)[Artificial superintelligence (ASI) **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/artificial-superintelligence/)

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