The Age of Em

The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth is a 2016 book released by Robin Hanson.[1] It explores the implications of world when researchers haven’t created artificial general intelligence but have learned to copy humans onto computers, creating “ems,” or emulated people, who quickly come to outnumber the real ones.[2]

There have been three human eras so far: foragers, farmers, and industry. The next era is likely to arise from artificial intelligence in the form of brain emulations, sometime in the next century or so. This book paints a detailed picture of this new era
— The Age of Em

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References

  1. ↑ The Age of Em, ISBN 9780198754626
  2. ↑ "What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? - The New Yorker". Newyorker.com. Retrieved June 11, 2016.

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