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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.

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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 co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors Max'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 Being an eminent physicist and the leader of the Future of Life Institute has given Max Tegmark a unique vantage point from which to give the reader an inside scoop on the most important issue of our time, in a way that is approachable without being dumbed down. --Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype This is an exhilarating book that will change the way we think about AI, intelligence, and the future of humanity. --Bart Selman, Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University The unprecedented power unleashed by artificial intelligence means the next decade could be humanity's best--or worst. Max has written the most insightful and just plain fun exploration of AI's implications that I've ever read. If you haven't been exposed to Max's joyful mind yet, you're in for a huge treat. --Erik Brynjolfsson, Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and co-author of The Second Machine Age Max seeks to facilitate a much wider conversation about what kind of future we, as a species, would want to create. Though the topics he covers--AI, cosmology, values, even the nature of conscious experience--can be fairly challenging, he presents them in an unintimidating manner that invites the reader to form her own opinions. --Nick Bostrom, Founder of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, author of Superintelligence

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 co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors Max'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 Being an eminent physicist and the leader of the Future of Life Institute has given Max Tegmark a unique vantage point from which to give the reader an inside scoop on the most important issue of our time, in a way that is approachable without being dumbed down. --Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype This is an exhilarating book that will change the way we think about AI, intelligence, and the future of humanity. --Bart Selman, Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University

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MAX TEGMARK is a professor of physics at MIT and the co-founder of the Future of Life Institute. Tegmark has been featured in dozens of science documentaries. His passion for ideas, adventure, and entrepreneurship is infectious.

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