<p dir="ltr"><strong>A greyhound catching the mechanical lure-what would he actually do with it?&#160; Has he given this any thought?</strong></p>&#10;<p dir="ltr">Bostrom's previous book,&#160;<em>Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies</em>&#160;changed the global conversation on AI and became a New York Times bestseller.&#160; It focused on what might happen if AI development goes wrong.&#160; But what if things go right?</p>&#10;<p dir="ltr">Suppose that we develop superintelligence safely, govern it well, and make good use of the cornucopian wealth and near magical technological powers that this technology can unlock.&#160; If this transition to the machine intelligence era goes well, human labor becomes obsolete.&#160; We would thus enter a condition of &#34;post-instrumentality&#34;, in which our efforts are not needed for any practical purpose.&#160; Furthermore, at technological maturity, human nature becomes entirely malleable.</p>&#10;<p dir="ltr">Here we confront a challenge that is not technological but philosophical and spiritual.&#160; In such a solved world, what is the point of human existence?&#160; What gives meaning to life?&#160; What do we&#160;<em>do</em>&#160;all day?</p>&#10;<p dir="ltr"><em>Deep Utopia</em>&#160;shines new light on these old questions, and gives us glimpses of a different kind of existence, which might be ours in the future.</p>