Life 3.0

Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

By: Max Tegmark

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

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? 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.

©2017 Max Tegmark (P)2017 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

"This is a compelling guide to the challenges and choices in our quest for a great future of life, intelligence and consciousness - on Earth and beyond." (Elon Musk, founder, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX and cofounder and CEO of Tesla Motors)

"All of us - not only scientists, industrialists and generals - should ask ourselves what can we do now to improve the chances of reaping the benefits of future AI and avoiding the risks. This is the most important conversation of our time, and Tegmark's thought-provoking book will help you join it." (Professor Stephen Hawking, director of research, Cambridge Centre for Theoretical Cosmology)

"Tegmark's new book is a deeply thoughtful guide to the most important conversation of our time, about how to create a benevolent future civilization as we merge our biological thinking with an even greater intelligence of our own creation." (Ray Kurzweil, inventor, author, and futurist, author of The Singularity Is Near and How to Create a Mind)

Some of the future think will blow your mind

Liked the book in general. Still trying to figure out tho why I didn't love it because it's well done. The start of the book could be misleading.

A deep dive into the AI conversation of today

I enjoyed this title. It covers a lot of ground and explores many possible AI scenarios and outcomes. I purchased it based on Elon Musk's recommendation ;)

Great but second part is to scientific

First 50% of book makes it worth buying, absolutely good, but why in gods name change to such exaggerated scientific writing style in second part using 300 times 10^x and 10^y and comparisons nobody can grasp? It seems like another writer entirely. But the cause is absolutely worth it so, thank you for being part of the effort to make ai safe.

Thoughtful positive analysis

Tegmark walks us through a wide set of possible outcomes, and asks us what we want. He ranges through societal and technical options. I'm strongly biased towards light fiction when I'm not working, but I found this easy and interesting. I have a PhD in computer science, working on hardware supporting AI, and I found this informed. The tone is a positive call to action, but it's not preachy. I will recommend this to my friends.

I found Shapiro, the voice actor, clear and easy to listen to.

AI EQ trials

I certainly promote the ethical commission boards decision to implement International safety guidelines before technology becomes executive decision ready! We are the creators of this beauty and art! Let us as humans install the beauty within our biological existence so we can move toward homosentience.

Sincerely,

A person who values all forms of life

Wise Jedi material-A Buffet of thought

I always listen to great works 2 or more times. Put it on, fasten your seatbelt and get ready for the future which has already arrived. It's up to us to flesh out the details and co-steer the course.

Great read

I recommend this book to anyone who is optimistic about the potential benefits of AI.

Important. Everyone should read this book.

Inspiring and appropriately cautionary. Clearly communicates the beautiful and risky possibilities of super intelligent AI. Includes consensus principles of AI safety research and stories about famous people. Loved it. I sincerely wish everyone would read this book.

Excellent book, works well as audio book

The prescience of this book is impressive. So many thought experiments working with the best data available has led me down interesting ways the world may develop given the emergence of a general intelligence. I will listen again and already bought a copy for a family member.

Amazing, riveting & timely... A must read

Wow! Max does it again! Takes Bostrum's AI discussions to a whole new level and I was captivated by the possibilities which are just around the corner... We indeed live in the best and worst of times...

Loved the Elon story... Truly love that human! Narration is great. Wake up and take care... I'm so glad to be in the here and now... Again, in a word... "WOW!"