title: Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
author:  Max Tegmark 
description: Original, accessible, and provocative.Tegmark successfully gives clarity to the many faces of AI, creating a highly readable book that complements<i>The Second Machine Age</i>s economic perspective on the near-term implications of recent accomplishments in AI and the more detailed analysis of how we might get from where we are today to AGI and even the superhuman AI in<i>Superintelligence</i>. At one point, Tegmark quotes Emerson: Life is a journey, not a destination. The same may be said of the book itself. Enjoy the ride, and you will come out the other end with a greater appreciation of where people might take technology and themselves in the years ahead.<b><i><b><i>Science</i></b><br /></i></b><br />This is a compelling guide to the challenges and choices in our quest for a great future of life, intelligence and consciousnesson Earth and beyond.<i> </i><b>Elon Musk, Founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX and co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors<br /><br /></b>All of usnot only scientists, industrialists and generalsshould ask ourselves what can we do now to improve the chances ofreaping the benefits of future AI and avoiding the risks. This is the most important conversation of our time, and Tegmarks thought-provokingbook will help you join it. <b><b>ProfessorStephen Hawking,Director of Research, Cambridge Centre for Theoretical Cosmology</b><br /></b><br />Tegmarks new book is a deeply thoughtful guide to the most important conversation of our time, about how to create a benevolent future civilization as wemerge our biological thinking with an even greater intelligence of our own creation. <b>Ray Kurzweil, Inventor, Author and Futurist, author of<i>The Singularity is Near</i>and<i>How to Create a Mind<br /><br /></i></b>Being an eminent physicist and the leader of the Future of Life Institute has given Max Tegmark a uniquevantage point from which to give the reader an inside scoop on the most important issue of our time, in a way thatisapproachable without being dumbed down. <b><b>Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype</b><br /> <b></b><br /> </b>This is an exhilarating book that will change the way we think about AI, intelligence, and the future of humanity. <b><b>Bart Selman, Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University</b><i><br /></i></b><br />The unprecedented power unleashed by artificial intelligence means the next decade could be humanitys bestor worst. Tegmark has written the most insightful and just plain fun exploration of AIs implicationsthat Ive ever read. If you havent been exposed to Tegmarks joyful mind yet, youre in for a huge treat.<b><i> </i>ProfessorErik Brynjolfsson, Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and co-author of <i>The Second Machine Age</i></b><br /><br />Tegmark seeks to facilitate a much wider conversation about what kind of future we, as a species, would want to create. Though the topics he coversAI, cosmology, values, even the nature of conscious experiencecan be fairly challenging, he presents them in an unintimidating manner that invites the reader to form her own opinions. <b>Nick Bostrom, Founder of Oxfords Future of Humanity Institute, author of <i>Superintelligence</i></b><br /><br />"I was riveted by this book. The transformational consequences of AI may soon be upon usbut will they be utopian or catastrophic? The jury is out, but this enlightening, lively and accessible book by adistinguished scientisthelps us to assess the odds."<b>Professor Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, cosmology pioneer, author of<i>Our Final Hour<br /><br /></i></b>"In [Tegmark's] magnificent brain, each fact or idea appears toslip neatly into its appointed place like another little silver globe in an orrery the size of the universe. There are spaces for Kant, Cold War historyand Dostoyevsky, for the behaviour of subatomic particles and the neuroscience of consciousness....Tegmark describes the present, near-future and distant possibilities of AI through a series of highly original thought experiments....Tegmark is not personally wedded to any ofthese ideas. He asks only that his readers make up their own minds. In the meantime, he has forged a remarkable consensus on the need for AIresearchers to work on the mind-bogglingly complex task of building digital chains that are strong and durable enough to hold a superintelligentmachine to our bidding....This is a rich and visionary book and everyone should read it."<b><i><b><i>The Times</i>(UK)</b><br /><br /></i></b><i>"Life 3.0</i> is far from the last word on AI and the future, but it provides a fascinating glimpse of the hard thinking required."<b> Stuart Russell,<i><i>Nature</i><br /><br /> </i></b>"Lucid and engaging, it has much to offer the general reader. Mr. Tegmark's explanation of how electronic circuitryor a human braincould produce something as evanescent and immaterial as thought is both elegant and enlightening. But the idea that machine-based superintelligence could somehow run amok is fiercely resisted by many computer scientists....Yet the notion enjoys more credence today than a few years ago, partly thanks to Mr. Tegmark.<b><i><i>Wall Street Journal</i><br /><br /></i></b>"Tegmarks book, along with Nick Bostroms<i>Superintelligence,</i> stands out among the currentbooks about our possible AI futures....Tegmark explains brilliantly many concepts in fields from computing to cosmology, writes with intellectual modesty and subtlety, does thereader the importantservice of defining his terms clearly, and rightly pays homage to the creative minds of science-fiction writers who were, ofcourse, addressing these kinds of questionsmore than half a century ago. Its often very funny, too."<b><b><i>The Telegraph </i>(UK)</b><br /><br /></b>Exhilarating.MIT physicist Tegmark surveys advances in artificial intelligence such as self-driving cars and Jeopardy-winning software, but focuses on the looming prospect of recursive self-improvementAI systems that build smarter versions of themselves at an accelerating pace until their intellects surpass ours. Tegmarks smart, freewheeling discussion leads to fascinating speculations on AI-based civilizations spanning galaxies and eons.Engrossing. <b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b>
zlib_text: Also	by	Max	Tegmark
  Our	Mathematical	Universe
  
  This	Is	a	Borzoi	Book	Published	by	Alfred	A.	Knopf
  Copyright	©	2017	by	Max	Tegmark
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  Library	of	Congress	Cataloging-in-Publication	Data
  Names:	Tegmark,	Max,	author.
  Title:	Life	3.0	:	being	human	in	the	age	of	artificial	intelligence	/	by	Max	Tegmark.
  Other	titles:	Life	three	point	zero
  Description:	New	York	:	Alfred	A.	Knopf,	2017.	|	“This	is	a	Borzoi	Book	published	by	Alfred	A.	Knopf.”	|
  Includes	bibliographical	references	and	index.
  Identifiers:	LCCN	2017006248	(print)	|	LCCN	2017022912	(ebook)	|	ISBN	9781101946596	(hardcover)	|
  ISBN	9781101946602	(ebook)
  Subjects:	LCSH:	Artificial	intelligence—Philosop