I suspect the publisher changed the book's title at the last second to ride the AI hype wave.
AI is not the main subject of this book.
Instead, it's about technologically advanced alien life and our future.
It's a fascinating subject, but the author sometimes goes off on distracting tangents & has HUGE hard-to-read paragraphs.

He concludes, "We are not, biologically, the moral animal; however, we are the best the universe has got, and the best it can ever have. The cosmic irony, the vast stellar joke, is that - even though Darwin seems to tell us that there will be plenty of other large animal life throughout the galaxy, and very occasionally other intelligent life - we really are the smartest and the best natural evolution can aspire to, and it is completely up to us whether the universe will experience justice, fairness and reason, or simply genocidal machine intelligence."

If you're baffled by his conclusion, read the book because he defends it.
His writing style makes his arguments hard to grasp, but they are sound.

Although the book claims it is a work of popsci, I found the material to be well beyond what would be expected in “popular science” – readable by anyone with a high school diploma. Indeed, many concepts were well into, and assuming knowledge of material covered in college-level science courses.

Although the title references Artificial Intelligence, the first half of the book was about biological evolution. It started off rather dry, but I stuck with it. It became quite interesting, even if somewhat speculative, once it got to machine intelligence and (future) evolution of that - as might have already happened on other planets. Indeed, a review of the mechanisms and theories regarding evolution were a requirement to understand the possible evolution of machine intelligence – especially when intelligent machines begin designing even more complex intelligent machines.

The book does an excellent job of laying out, according to various biological and sociological theories about just why it is that the late Stephen Hawking, among others, have said that we are far more likely to encounter extraterrestrials like “The Borg” than “ET” – anything, probably mechanical, having killed it’s socially-involved biological creators as extraneous to their mission, would have no more concern for human life than we would for an anthill. Indeed, even if we were to run across a super-rational, intellectual, benevolent race of aliens, who might be evolutionarily a billion years ahead of us, might not appreciate us as we do ourselves.

I received a copy of the aforementioned book with the intent of providing a review. Authored by James B. Miles, the book commences with an exposition of Darwin's Theory of evolution, wherein numerous instances of how elementary life forms evolve and expand their capacities are furnished, contingent upon time and circumstance. The author subsequently explicates how the development of computers has proceeded since their inception. The book further expounds on the breakneck pace of software progress, and how artificial intelligence (AI) will be subject to a similar evolutionary trajectory as expounded in Darwin's theories.

As computers and AI programs continue to advance, human interaction will gradually become dispensable. Eventually, AI will surpass human intellect, thereby forging novel paths of knowledge that differ from the human perspective.

Darwin was probably one of the most influential figures in human history. This book interprets and challenges his writings and those of a vast number of other evolutionary biologists. It also looks at the path from interstellar dust to intergalactic colonisation.
By explaining what Darwinism actually implies about both natural intelligence and non-natural, machine, intelligence, the author presents us with not the extraterrestrials of our dreams but the extraterrestrials of our nightmares.
The Great Silence continues as apart from cosmic dinosaurs, the other extraterrestrials will be cannibalistic, homicidal, very xenophobic, and genocidally annihilistic. Truly terrifying. E.T. stay home!