The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth

by Robin Hanson

Book Overview

Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like?

Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human.

Train an em to do some job and copy it a million times: an army of workers is at your disposal. When they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198817827
• ISBN13: 9780198817826
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"