Toby Walsh to discuss new book 'God AI: Boom or Doom?' on AGI existential risk
TobyWalsh · x · 2026-09-06
Professor Toby Walsh, a leading AI researcher at UNSW, will appear at Harry Hartog Penrith (Australia) on September 9 at 6pm to discuss his new book God AI: Boom or Doom? What to Expect When Machines Outsmart Us.
- The book examines existential risks from AGI, including recursive self-improvement and the singularity
- It weighs AI's dual nature: potentially life-saving drug discovery vs. disruption of work and human relationships
- Central question: are we building our own successor — and could it become a 'god'?
The event is an in-person conversation with Q&A at the bookstore.
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