The Age of AI is an ambitious undertaking by three older guys to explain the benefits and threats of a broad and hard to define technology. The authors explore three examples of what they classify as artificial intelligence with a chess playing program (AlphaZero), an anti-bacterial drug development program (Halicin), and a language generative program (GPT-3). They identify the development of AI and AGI as a major development in human history and compare it to the introduction of the printing press. They emphasize the dangers of a run away AGI that can threaten our very existence. They call for guardrails and safeguards to be developed to monitor and control the machines. As apposed to the last book that recruited young people to altruistically guide AI, the authors suggest a more top down, philosophical and governmental control. Either way, the potential benefits and risks are monumental.
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