Life-form #4. How to Be a Human Being in the Golden Age of Artificial Intelligence

Life-form #4 is about humans enhanced by implants and artificial intelligence. We are talking about the near future: even today, machines can learn non-stop, AI is getting smarter and cheaper, and its range of possibilities is expanding every day. Evgeny Chereshnev - a visionary, the first Russian IT speaker at TED New York, an entrepreneur and a bionicist - describes AI as a step in the evolution of life on our planet. The author analysed the history of thinking machines and modern methods of data analysis, spoke about the impact of automation on society, family, economy and geopolitics, and about the tools of protection against tracking and digital threats. And most importantly, he showed how the world of the 22nd century might look, where no one will be able to disconnect from the global network, and where the need for many areas of human activity will disappear entirely. It is necessary to remember machine ethics, to establish rules for collecting and analysing data and, most importantly, to understand how artificial intelligence works and develops in order to avoid risk of becoming slaves in a world of intelligent robots. This book covers these and many other aspects of AI.