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Comment author: ciphergoth 16 March 2015 02:22:00PM *  4 points [-]

In Our Own Image: Will artificial intelligence save or destroy us? by George Zarkadakis was published by Random House on 5 March. I haven't read it, but from a search on Google Books, there's no mention of "Yudkowsky" or "MIRI", while "Bostrom" only appears once, in a discussion of the Simulation Argument. I nearly gave up at that point, but then I thought to search for "Hawking", and indeed, there is a discussion of the Hawking/Tegmark/Russell/Wilczek letter; this seems to me to be evidence on how carefully the author looked into the issue before writing the paragraphs dismissing it. In summary: *sigh*.

Edit: The author was aware of MIRI in 2013.