Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark · first published 2017 · ISBN 9780451485076
Tegmark moves through AI's history, the mechanics of current machine learning, and scenarios for the future ranging from utopias to catastrophes. He sketches what happens if machines surpass humans at most cognitive tasks and explores how society might adapt. The book takes seriously both the possibility that AI solves major problems and that it poses risks.
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This book doesn't pick a side; it maps out the territory. Tegmark's background in physics gives him discipline about what's physical possibility versus speculation, and he acknowledges uncertainty while still forcing you to think through the implications.