Life 3.0 — Max Tegmark (2017)

MIT physicist Max Tegmark's Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence provides the most balanced and accessible overview of the AI landscape and its long-term implications for humanity. It examines the likely trajectories of AI development across dozens of scenarios, from utopian to catastrophic, and argues that the choices society makes in the next decades will determine which of these futures we inhabit.