Life Form No. 4: How to Remain Human in an Era of Flourishing Artificial Intelligence

Life Form No. 4 is people enhanced with implants and artificial intelligence. This refers to the near future: even today, machines can continuously learn, AI is becoming smarter and cheaper, and the range of its capabilities is expanding every day.... Evgeny Chereshnev is a visionary, the first Russian IT speaker at TED New York, an entrepreneur and a bionic person, who describes AI as a step in the evolution of life on our planet. The author analyzed the history of thinking machines and modern data analysis methods, discussed the impact of automation on society, family, economy, and geopolitics, tools for protection against tracking and digital threats. And most importantly, he illustrated what the world of the 22nd century might look like, where no one will be able to disconnect from the global network, and the need in many areas of human activity will completely disappear. To avoid becoming slaves in a world of intelligent robots, it is necessary to remember about machine ethics, establish rules for data collection and analysis, and, most importantly, understand how artificial intelligence is structured and evolves. This book addresses these and many other aspects of AI.