Frankissstein: A Novel

"Yes, it does cover a lot! I’ve picked this book because it covers two of the most important areas of innovation: artificial intelligence and synthetic biology. These are going to be responsible for gigantic changes in our society in the future, and I’m spending a lot of money on them in my book. Winterson’s book helps me think about the dangers of corporate monopolisation of the technology of artificial intelligence, and about the ethical responsibilities of creating and tinkering with life. But it also prompts questions about what it means to be human, about the creation of life, about what life is, about the future of humanity, about transhumanism , about the people now who freeze bodies and heads in liquid nitrogen to try and preserve them for future resurrection. Other books might more comprehensively cover some of these subjects, and Toby Ord’s The Precipice and Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence spring to mind, but Frankissstein has more, and is frankly a lot more fun, too. He may be right – which is why I want to spend money on trying to make research into AI more transparent and open and subject to interrogation. That said, I would spend a lot more of my trillion dollars on mitigating climate change, if I could."