Max Tegmark Life 3 0 Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

I’m truly grateful to everyone who has encouraged and helped me write this book, including my family, friends, teachers, colleagues and collaborators for support and inspiration over the years, Mom for kindling my curiosity about consciousness and meaning, Dad for the fighting spirit to make the world a better place, my sons, Philip and Alexander, for demonstrating the wonders of human-level intelligence emerging, all the science and technology enthusiasts around the world who’ve contacted me over the years with questions, comments and encouragement to pursue and publish my ideas, my agent, John Brockman, for twisting my arm until I agreed to write this book, Bob Penna, Jesse Thaler and Jeremy England for helpful discussions about quasars, sphalerons and thermodynamics, respectively, those who gave me feedback on parts of the manuscript, including Mom, my brother Per, Luisa Bahet, Rob Bensinger, Katerina Bergström, Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniela Chita, David Chalmers, Nima Deghani, Henry Lin, Elin Malmsköld, Toby Ord, Jeremy Owen, Lucas Perry, Anthony Romero, Nate Soares and Jaan Tallinn, the superheroes who commented on drafts of the entire book, namely Meia, Dad, Anthony Aguirre, Paul Almond, Matthew Graves, Phillip Helbig, Richard Mallah, David Marble, Howard Messing, Luiño Seoane, Marin Soljačić, my editor Dan Frank and, most of all, Meia, my beloved muse and fellow traveler, for her eternal encouragement, support and inspiration, without which this book wouldn’t exist