Widespread autonomy is the next step after the digital transformation and advanced manufacturing. He describes it as the evolution of work and the relationship between humans and machines. Evergreen will present the keynote, "Clearing the Digital Fog: The First Step of Autonomous Transformation," at IME West in Anaheim on February 8. We caught up with Evergreen to ask for further clarification about the autonomous transformation. Related: Manufacturing is Getting'Futurized' with Artificial Intelligence Design News: When you use the term autonomous transformation, it seems you're using the term to describe a concept beyond autonomous vehicles.

For the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Dean Dan Huttenlocher, bringing disciplines together is the best way to address challenges and opportunities posed by rapid advancements in computing. What does it mean to be human in an age where artificial intelligence agents make decisions that shape human actions? That's a deep question with no easy answers, and it's been on the mind of Dan Huttenlocher SM '84, PhD '88, dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, for the past few years. "Advances in AI are going to happen, but the destination that we get to with those advances is up to us, and it is far from certain," says Huttenlocher, who is also the Henry Ellis Warren Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Along with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and elder statesman Henry Kissinger, Huttenlocher recently explored some of the quandaries posed by the rise of AI, in the book, "The Age of AI: And Our Human Future."

That's a deep question with no easy answers, and it's been on the mind of Dan Huttenlocher SM '84, PhD '88, dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of …

What does it mean to be human in an age where artificial intelligence agents make decisions that shape human actions? That's a deep question with no easy answers, and it's been on the mind of Dan Huttenlocher SM '84, PhD '88, dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, for the past few years. "Advances in AI are going to happen, but the destination that we get to with those advances is up to us, and it is far from certain," says Huttenlocher, who is also the Henry Ellis Warren Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Along with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and elder statesman Henry Kissinger, Huttenlocher recently explored some of the quandaries posed by the rise of AI, in the book, "The Age of AI: And Our Human Future." For Huttenlocher and his co-authors, "Our belief is that, to get there, we need much more informed dialogue and much more multilateral dialogue. Our hope is that the book will get people interested in doing that from a broad range of places," he says.

From ensemble cast of authors former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and MIT's Daniel Huttenlocher comes "The Age of AI: And Our Human Future," an exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI) is already changing our world and how it may someday change the very nature of the human condition. AI will affect everything from the way we make scientific discoveries to the way warfare is conducted, the authors predict. It has already surpassed the world's greatest chess players, and it won't be long before AI algorithms are the safest drivers on the road, the sharpest medical diagnosticians or the most prolific artists and writers. But, uncontrolled, AI also poses nightmarish dangers to society: producing hyper-realistic fake speeches or videos of events that never happened, AI-driven warfare spilling over into the civilian sphere, or, most disturbingly, a future where the most significant decisions about the fate of the world are not made by humans. While I had some familiarity with the subject of AI, I was excited to develop a well-rounded understanding of it from this title.

Prof. Steve Fuller is the author of 25 books including a trilogy relating to the idea of a'post-' or'trans-' human future, and most recently, Nietzschean Meditations: Untimely Thoughts at the Dawn of the Transhuman Age. He has an incredibly broad amount of knowledge from a diversity of disciplines and I have to admit that I had a total blast interviewing him. In fact, I feel we could have easily gone for another 2 hours while still having fun. And so there is a great chance I will ask Prof. Fuller for another interview very soon indeed. During this 2h 15 min interview with Steve Fuller we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: the social foundations of knowledge and our shared love of books; Transhumanism as a scientistic way of understanding who we are; the proactionary vs the precautionary principle; Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Omega Point; Julian and Aldous Huxley's diverging takes on Transhumanism; David Pearce's Hedonistic Imperative as a concept straight out of Brave New World; the concept and meaning of being human, transhuman and posthuman; humanity's special place in the cosmos; my Socratic Test of (Artificial) Intelligence; Transhumanism as a materialist theology; Elon Musk, cosmism and populating Mars; de-extinction, genetics and the sociological elements of a given species; the greatest issues that humanity is facing today; AI, the Singularity and armed conflict; morphological freedom and becoming human; longevity and the Death is Wrong argument; Zoltan Istvan and the Transhumanist Wager; Transhumanism as a way of entrenching rather than transcending one's original views… As always you can listen to or download the audio file above or scroll down and watch the video interview in full.

A combination of breathless excitement and near-paralysing fear are driving the debate along with countless – often ill-informed – predictions about how the technology which will revamp our future lives. While it is far too early in AI's evolution to understand its true potential or how quickly it will have a fundamental impact, it is already penetrating our lives. From smartphones and dating sites to web searches and driverless vehicles; it is becoming part of the fabric of life. Over the next few years, businesses, homes and schooling could be completely different with AI on the scene. At its core, AI is a type software or hardware that learns – and it could become programmed to learn mostly about us, its users.