Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

We've all heard that AI will grow exponentially and lead to either an explosion in prosperity or to an existential crisis for humanity. But what happens if the long-term effects of AI land somewhere in the middle of these extremes? What does society look like when we have a technology that seems able to do anything a human can and far more? MIT professor Max Tegmark tackles this question in a classic book on AI's potential effects on society. If you're interested in the book or just in these questions, please join us at July's Technology and Society Book Club to discuss **Life 3.0** by Max Tegmark. Book description from Amazon: **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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.** 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? What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. 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.