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The opening chapter of Our Final Invention  introduces a troubling idea: that creating an Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) we can control, or even understand, may be far harder than imagined. The concept of a “friendly AI” assumes we can align the values of a machine to that of a human, but due to the inherent complexity and inconsistency of these values, they are nearly impossible to encode. Furthermore, in his reference to the short story, "Runaround," Barrat highlights t