Exploring The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers and the Future of Humanity

What is possible with artificial intelligence? Should we fear it or welcome it? Can computers achieve consciousness, and if so, do they then acquire rights? Are you a machine? View the full video interview here. Byron Reese is the CEO and publisher of GigaOm and the host of two GigaOm podcasts: VoicesinAI and the GigaOm AI Minute. He is the author of the acclaimed books, “The Fourth Age; Smart Robots, Conscious Computers and the Future of Humanity” and “Infinite Progress: How Technology and the Internet Will End Ignorance, Disease, Hunger, Poverty, and War.”