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.”