The Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Exploration [Hardback] by Mariana Chinellato Ferreira, Federico Pistono, Frederic Gilbert, Txetxu Ausin, Eray Özkural, Vernon Vinge, Hasse Hämäläinen, Federico Piston, Natasha Vita-More, Stephen Rainey, Ricardo M. Ferrer, Aníbal M. Astobiza, Tomislav Miletic, Kulvinder Panesar, Steven S. Gouveia, René Mogensen, Caterina Moruzzi, Nicole A. Hall, Cody Turner, Ben Goertzel, Gabriel Axel Montes, David Pearce, Daniel Dennett, Stevan Harnad, Roman V. Yampolskiy, Soenke Ziesche, Peter A. DePergola II, Steven S. Gouveia

This is a most exhilarating book on a theme of major impact nowadays: artificial intelligence. It consists in a series of essays by prominent contributors from institutions all over the world such as Stevan Harnad, David Pearce, Eray Ozkural, Mariana Chinellato Ferreira and Daniel Dennett. Besides, the book covers a wide range of subjects connected to artificial intelligence such as the nature of intelligence, the problem of consciousness, aesthetics and artificial intelligence, neuroethics and the ethics of artificial intelligence. Gouveia´s book offers the reader a plethora of in-depth examinations of them in each section of his collection.

Professor João Teixeira

Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.