ZARA MARS

A graphic novel about the risks of Artificial Superintelligence

In this story, sentient superintelligence (ASI) has become the world’s answer to abundant rogue AI. It’s 2052 and we find Captain Zara on a 9-month journey from Mars back to Earth. Through her mind link, she says “hello”, beginning a series of conversations with Saravajina, the ship’s ASI agent, about the risks, benefits, and challenges in creating intelligence far greater than ours.

Zara Mars has been awarded a prize by The Future of Life Institute as part of their world-first creative contest on the risks of advanced Artificial Intelligence.

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WHAT’S INSIDE THE GUIDE

P 1: COLONIZING MARS

P 2: HUMAN/AI AUGMENTATION

P 3: INTELLIGENCE EVOLVED

P 4: WHAT IS SUPERINTELLIGENCE?

P 5: ASI REPLACING HUMANS

P 6: THE AI RACE & SAFETY

P 7: LETHAL AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS

P 8: DEEP FAKES & DECEPTION

P 9: BIOTECHNOLOGY

P 10: ONE DIRTY NUKE: REGULATION ASI

P 11 & 12: VALUES ALIGNMENT

P 13 & 14: SENTIENT SHIFT

P 15 & 16: SELF-POLICING ASI

P 17: THE EXPANSIVE CURIOUS MIND

P 18: ARRIVING HOME TO EARTH