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.

What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. 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? Tegmark’s interests in the future, the advancement of AI, and the extension of human life, are all part of his missionary zeal to colonize a dead universe with intelligent, conscious lifeforms.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. This fact is of deep spiritual and ethical resonance for Tegmark: “Had our universe never awoken, then, as far as I’m concerned, it would have been completely pointless-merely a gigantic waste of space” (22). Rather, consciousness is an aspect of reality that emerged at a particular place and time: Earth 13.8 billion years into existence. Consciousness is not an eternal part of reality, nor was reality forged by a conscious entity. This seems to be an unquestioned, faith-based belief for Tegmark. “Cosmic awakening” refers to the development of consciousness in an unconscious universe: “Thirteen point eight billion years after its birth, our Universe has awoken and become aware of itself” (22). He first presents his spiritual vision for the future of highly intelligent life in the universe based on his love for and wonder at “cosmic awakening” (22).

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