Life 3.0

Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Max Tegmark · 2017

MIT physicist Max Tegmark's wide-angle look at how artificial intelligence could reshape work, war, justice, and what it means to be human, and how to steer it toward the best outcomes.

Tegmark, a physicist at MIT, steps back from the day-to-day AI headlines to ask the biggest question: if we succeed in building machines as capable as us or more so, what kind of future do we actually want? He sorts the possibilities into a dozen scenarios, from utopian to catastrophic, and lays out the concrete choices, about goals, control, and values, that will decide which one we get. It became a touchstone for the debate over how to keep advanced AI aligned with human interests.

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Elon Musk

CEO of Tesla & SpaceX

Worth reading Life 3.0 by @Tegmark. AI will be the best or worst thing ever for humanity, so let's get it right.

Tweet · August 2017

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