2062

by Toby Walsh

Overview

'We've had the run of planet earth for the last few hundred thousand years: this amazing blue green dot, revolving around a rather typical star on a minor spiral arm of the Milky Way. We owe it to our child homo digitalis to get the next few decades right.'

2062 is the year by which we will have built machines as intelligent as us. This is what leading AI and robotics experts predict. But what will this future actually look like? When the quest to build intelligent machines has been successful, how will life on this planet unfold?

In 2062, Toby Walsh considers the impact AI will have on work, war, politics, economics, everyday human life and, indeed, human death. Will robots become conscious? Will automation take away jobs? Will we become immortal machines ourselves, uploading our brains to the cloud?

What lies in store for homo digitalis - the people of the not-so-distant future who will be living amongst fully functioning artificial intelligence? In the tradition of Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus, 2062 describes the choices we need to make today to ensure that future remains bright.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781760640514
Publisher:	La Trobe University Press
Publication date:	08/06/2018
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Toby Walsh is one of the world's leading experts in artificial intelligence (AI). Professor Walsh's research focuses on how computers can interact with humans to optimize decision-making for the common good. He is also a passionate advocate for limits to ensure AI is used to improve, not take, lives. In 2015, Professor Walsh was one of the people behind an open letter calling for a ban on autonomous weapons or killer robots that was signed by more than 3000 AI researchers and high-profile scientists, entrepreneurs, and intellectuals. He was subsequently invited by Human Rights Watch to talk at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva. Professor Walsh is a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science and of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and was recently awarded the 2016 NSW Premier's Prize for Excellence in Engineering and Information and Communications Technologies. Walsh has been interviewed several hundred times, appearing on NPR (US), BBC (UK), CCTV (China), CNN (US), RT (Russia), and in publications including the Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, and New Scientist. He also regularly writes for outlets like American Scientist, New Scientist, and Conversation.

Table of Contents

0001 Homo Digitalis 1

0002 The End of Us 25

0003 The End of Consciousness 75

0004 The End of Work 97

0005 The End of War 125

0008 The End of Human Values 149

0007 The End of Equality 179

0008 The End of Privacy 203

0009 The End of Politics 223

0010 The End of the West 241

0011 The End 255

Acknowledgements 269

Endnotes 271

Bibliography 287

Index 291