Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Audiobook

Quotes

• This is a compelling guide to the challenges and choices in our quest for a great future of life, intelligence and consciousness—on Earth and beyond.

  — Elon Musk, Founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX and co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors

• “All of us—not only scientists, industrialists and generals—should ask ourselves what can we do now to improve the chances of reaping the benefits of future AI and avoiding the risks. This is the most important conversation of our time, and Tegmark’s thought-provoking book will help you join it.

  — Professor Stephen Hawking, Director of Research, Cambridge Centre for Theoretical Cosmology 

• Tegmark’s new book is a deeply thoughtful guide to the most important conversation of our time, about how to create a benevolent future civilization as we merge our biological thinking with an even greater intelligence of our own creation.

  — Ray Kurzweil, Inventor, Author and Futurist, author of The Singularity is Near and How to Create a Mind

• “Being an eminent physicist and the leader of the Future of Life Institute has given Max Tegmark a unique vantage point from which to give the reader an inside scoop on the most important issue of our time, in a way that is approachable without being dumbed down.

  — Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype   “This is an exhilarating book that will change the way we think about AI, intelligence, and the future of humanity.

• The unprecedented power unleashed by artificial intelligence means the next decade could be humanity’s best—or worst.  Tegmark has written the most insightful and just plain fun exploration of AI’s implications that I’ve ever read. If you haven’t been exposed to Tegmark’s joyful mind yet, you’re in for a huge treat.

  — Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and co-author of The Second Machine Age

• 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 covers—AI, cosmology, values, even the nature of conscious experience—can be fairly challenging, he presents them in an unintimidating manner that invites the reader to form her own opinions.

  — Nick Bostrom, Founder of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, author of Superintelligence

• I was riveted by this book. The transformational consequences of AI may soon be upon us­—but will they be utopian or catastrophic? The jury is out, but this enlightening, lively and accessible book by a distinguished scientist helps us to assess the odds.

  — Professor Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, cosmology pioneer, author of Our Final Hour 

• “Lucid and engaging, it has much to offer the general reader.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “This is a rich and visionary book and everyone should read it.”

  — Times (London)

• “Original, accessible, and provocative…Tegmark successfully gives clarity to the many faces of AI, creating a highly readable book.”

  — Science

• “Life 3.0 is far from the last word on AI and the future, but it provides a fascinating glimpse of the hard thinking required.”

  — Nature