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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

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

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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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