Artificial intelligence is our most powerful technology, and in the coming decades it will change everything in our lives. If we get it right it will make humans almost godlike. If we get it wrong... well, extinction is not the worst possible outcome.

Surviving AI is a concise, easy-to-read guide to what's coming, taking you through technological unemployment (the economic singularity) and the possible creation of a superintelligence (the technological singularity).

Here's what some of the leading thinkers in the field have to say about it:

A sober and easy-to-read review of the risks and opportunities that humanity will face from AI.

Jaan Tallinn  co-founder of Skype

Understanding AI  its promise and its dangers  is emerging as one of the great challenges of coming decades and this is an invaluable guide to anyone whos interested, confused, excited or scared.

David Shukman  BBC Science Editor

We have recently seen a surge in the volume of scholarly analysis of this topic; Chace impressively augments that with this high-quality, more general-audience discussion.

Aubrey de Grey  CSO of SENS Research Foundation; former AI researcher

It's rare to see a book about the potential End of the World that is fun to read without descending into sensationalism or crass oversimplification.

Ben Goertzel  chairman of Novamente LLC

Calum Chace is a prescient messenger of the risks and rewards of artificial intelligence. In Surviving AI he has identified the most essential issues and developed them with insight and wit  so that the very framing of the questions aids our search for answers. Chaces sensible balance between AIs promise and peril makes Surviving AI an excellent primer for anyone interested in whats happening, how we got here, and where we are headed.

Kenneth Cukier  co-author of Big Data

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