Picture this: it’s ten years from now. Every report, every analysis, every email has already been drafted. By AI. And the AI improved itself overnight.

So — will AI replace me? Not just my tasks, but my role entirely?

That’s the question at the heart of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by MIT physicist Max Tegmark. This isn’t a reassuring book. It’s an honest one. And for busy professionals trying to figure out how to work with AI — and stay relevant as it gets more powerful — honest is exactly what’s needed.

Tegmark introduces a framework that reframes everything: Life 1.0 (biology alone), Life 2.0 (humans — we can update our knowledge and skills), and Life 3.0 (AI that can redesign both its software and its hardware). The question isn’t wheth ...