The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning — Robert Wright

Chapter Excerpts

  1. 1A Blast from the Future
  2. 2The Great Inversion
  3. 3The Cosmic Context
  4. 4The Evolution of a Large Language Model
  5. 5The Elements of Understanding
  6. 6The Foundation of Wild Visions
  7. 7Intelligence and Power
  8. 8Agency
  9. 9Evolutionary Arms Races
  10. 10AI Heaven and AI Hell
  11. 11Hive Minds and the Loss of Control
  12. 12The Singularity and the Singleton
  13. 13Gemini and Superman
  14. 14Enlightenment Now
  15. 15Fredkin's Mission
  16. Appendix: Evolution, Purpose, and Consciousness

Media

Podcast appearances

The God We Deserve: Nonzero's Robert Wright on AI as Humanity's Ultimate Test
The Cognitive Revolution · Nathan Labenz
Robert Wright on the Global Implications of AI
AI Summer · Timothy B. Lee
If a Silicon God Arrives, It Will Be the God We Deserve
Homebrewed Christianity · Tripp Fuller
The God Test
Tangentially Speaking · Chris Ryan
"The God Test": AI as Cosmic Reckoning
Lawfare (Scaling Laws feed) · Alan Z. Rozenshtein
The God Test: Why Artificial Intelligence May Require a Moral Upgrade
Executive Functions Chat · Jack Goldsmith
'But China!': Robert Wright on the AI Race and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning
Sinica · Kaiser Kuo
AI Dystopia Is Just 8 Years Away
Doom Debates · Liron Shapira
The God Test
The Next Big Idea · Rufus Griscom
Robert Wright on an AI-Driven Global Community
The Glenn Show · Glenn Loury
The Wright Stuff
Very Bad Wizards · Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
The God Test
Useful Idiots · Aaron Maté
Failing 'The God Test'
The Fifth Column · Kmele Foster & Matt Welch
Why The AI Doomers Might Be Right
Modern Wisdom · Chris Williamson