Since computers are improving faster than brains, superhuman AGI will happen, and a beneficial outcome is not guaranteed. This sounds trivial until he points out that both brains and computers are able to do this. He dismisses tabloid scenarios of rampaging robots but warns, “we might create societies that flourish like never before…or a Kafkasque global surveillance state so powerful that it could never be toppled.” The author defines intelligence as the ability to accomplish complex goals.
In this expert but often wildly speculative rumination, Tegmark (Physics/MIT Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, 2014, etc.) joins the fierce debate on what will happen when AGI reaches human level and beyond. They don’t yet think, but the contingent of researchers who believe that they will never be smarter than humans is steadily shrinking. Nowadays, computers read, learn, recognize faces, translate languages, and consult other computers. The founder of the Future of Life Institute explores one of the most intriguing scientific frontiers, artificial general intelligence, and how humans can grow along with it.
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