The fourth age smart robots, conscious computers, and the future of humanity
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Read by Danny Campbell.

Byron Reese makes the case that technology has reshaped humanity just three times in history: 100,000 years ago, ,am harnessed fire, which led to language; 10,000 years ago, man developed agriculture, which led to cities and warfare; 5,000 years ago, man invented the wheel and writing, which lead to the nation state. Human kind is now on the doorstep of a fourth change brought about by two technologies: AI and robotics. Here, Reese provides extraordinary background information on how it got to this point, and how, rather than what, people should think about the topics they'll soon all be facing: machine consciousness, automation, employment, creative computers, radical life extension, artificial life, AI ethics, the future of warfare, superintelligence, and the implications of extreme prosperity.