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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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" When Martha Einkorn fled her father's isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she's surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry, while spouting technological prophecy. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her father's fox and rabbit sermon--once a parable...
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Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Warning that today is not the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" some envision, Wheeler calls for a new era of public interest oversight that leaves behind industrial era regulatory ideas to embrace a new process of agile, supervised and enforced code setting that protects consumers and competition while encouraging continued innovation. Wheeler combines insights from his experience at the highest echelons of business and government to create a compelling...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"An eminent political thinker uses our history with states and corporations—"artificial agents" to which we have granted immense power—to predict how AI will remake society. Much has been written about the arrival of artificial intelligence, but according to political philosopher David Runciman, we've been living with AI for 300 years—because states and corporations are robots, too. In this mind-bending work, Runciman explains the modern world...
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Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Ubiquitous computational technologies will define our future, and this book takes the hopeful view that such technologies, properly designed, can enhance rather than diminish human agency. As people co-evolve with our technology, we can develop technological assistance to enhance our decision making and compensate for our biases: personalized medicine, intelligent romance, digital law, hybrid athletics, and cyberfinance offer compelling cases of...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines--on punishment of death--and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the birth of science fiction....
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Publisher
Editoral Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"La resistencia es un libro para aquellos que saben leer los símbolos que se abisman entre uno y el universo: la incomunicación, el narcisismo, la reverencia a los dioses de la televisión, el trabajo deshumanizado, el imperio de la máquina sobre el ser, el sometimiento y la masificación, el creciente sentimiento de orfandad, la competencia feroz y el vértigo apocalíptico en el que toda posibilidad de diálogo desaparece. Entonces la pregunta...
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Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
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"Vaclav Smil lleva cincuenta a�nos estudiando las posibilidades que tenemos a nuestro alcance para garantizar el futuro energ�etico de nuestro planeta. Debido a la complejidad de las interacciones que mueven el mundo, la atomizaci�on del conocimiento y la volatilidad de la informaci�on es muy dif�icil anticipar con exactitud qu�e ocurrir�a. Por eso es necesario ce�nirse a los datos y a los l�imites que nos ofrece la ciencia, as�i...
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Publisher
Stripe Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer, more abundant future. The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological innovation. We'd vacation in geodesic domes on Mars, have meaningful conversations with computers, and drop our children off at school in flying cars. Fast-forward 60 years, and we're still stuck in traffic in...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This brief and accessible book draws lessons from the history and governance of three recent transformative technologies - the space race, in-vitro fertilization (IVF), and the internet - to argue that society can and should take an active role in shaping the future of artificial intelligence (AI). It is a manifesto aimed at empowering the reader to participate in the conversations and political and democratic processes that will determine the intentions...
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Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"It's no secret that AI is changing the way we live, work, love, and entertain ourselves. Dating apps are using AI to pick our potential partners. Retailers are using AI to predict our behavior and desires. Rogue actors are using AI to persuade us with Twitter bots and fake news. Companies are using AI to hire us-or not. This is just the beginning. As AI becomes smarter and more humanlike, our societies, our economies, and our humanity will undergo...
Author
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance--from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind." --
"Una advertencia urgente sobre los riesgos sin precedentes que la IA y otras tecnologías de rápido desarrollo representan para el orden global, y cómo podemos contenerlos mientras tengamos la oportunidad,...
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