Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,
by Max Tegmark
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Life 3.0 reads like a long, wide-ranging conversation with a physicist who loves big if-then thought experiments. The useful part is its panoramic sweep across possible AI futures—from job automation to cosmic colonization—forcing you to consider timelines you might otherwise avoid. The limitation is that the speculative breadth often outruns the depth; chapters can feel meandering, and some readers will find the cosmic-scale scenarios too detached from practical concerns, making it hard to ground in real urgency.
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In this authoritative and eyeopening book, Max Tegmark describes and illuminates the recent, pathbreaking 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 th...
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