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Life 3.0

  • 384 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2017
  • 8 editions

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1 About this book

How will artificial intelligence 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?

Good for readers who want: philosophy, artificial intelligence, and science.

  • Philosophy
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Technology, social aspects
  • Technology & engineering
  • Science
  • Ethics
  • Automation
  • Human-computer interaction

2 About Max Tegmark

Born 1967

Max Tegmark (born 5 May 1967) is a Swedish-American physicist, machine learning researcher and author. He is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-founded and leads the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit focused on reducing global catastrophic risks from advanced technologies.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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