Adam Becker, Author and Astrophysicist

Adam Becker | More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

In More Everything Forever, science journalist Adam Becker investigates tech billionaires’ wildly implausible and often profoundly immoral visions of tomorrow—trillions of humans living in space, functionally immortal, served by superintelligent AIs—and shows why there is no good evidence that they will, or should, come to pass. But these obsessions fuel fears that overwhelm reason at the expense of essential work on problems like climate change, and they cloak a hunger for power under dreams of space colonies and digital immortality. The giants of Silicon Valley claim that their ideas are based on science, but the reality is darker: they come from a jumbled mix of shallow futurism and racist pseudoscience.

Adam Becker is a science journalist and author with a Ph.D. in astrophysics. His most recent book, More Everything Forever, dismantles tech billionaires’ grandiose delusions about the future of AI and humanity. His first book, What Is Real?, was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and was long-listed for the PEN Literary Science Writing Award. Becker has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, the BBC, NPR, Fortune, Scientific American, Quanta, New Scientist, Veritasium, and many other media outlets. He has been a science journalism fellow at the Santa Fe Institute and a science communicator in residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.

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