Intelligent Choices

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) raises not only technical questions but also ethical and philosophical ones. Should superhuman AI be controlled when it arrives--and if so, by whom? If robots are doing all of our work, how will humans find meaning? "Whatever we humans want the future to be, AI can help us accomplish this," says MIT professor Max Tegmark, author of Life 3.0. "A big part of the problem is we don't talk much about what we actually want."