In this authoritative and eye-opening book, Max Tegmark describes and
illuminates the recent, path-breaking advances in Artificial
Intelligence and how it is poised to overtake human intelligence. How
will AI affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of
being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future
more than any other technology--and there's nobody better qualified or
situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who's
helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.
How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people
lacking income or purpose? What career advice should we give today's
kids? How can we make future AI systems more robust, so that they do
what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should
we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will machines
eventually outsmart us at all tasks, replacing humans on the job market
and perhaps altogether? Will AI help life flourish like never before or
give us more power than we can handle?
What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what
may be the most important conversation of our time. It doesn't shy away
from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial
issues--from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness and the
ultimate physical limits on life in the cosmos.
