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ISBN-10: 0691244871
ISBN-13: 9780691244877
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publish Date: 03/12/2024
Dimensions: 8.60" L, 5.60" W, 1.20" H

AI Needs You: How We Can Change Ai’s Future and Save Our Own

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Overview

A humanist manifesto for the age of AI

Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI’s power grows, so does the need to figure out what–and who–this technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is critical for society to take the lead in answering this urgent question and ensuring that AI fulfills its promise.

Verity Harding draws inspiring lessons from the histories of three twentieth-century tech revolutions–the space race, in vitro fertilization, and the internet–to empower each of us to join the conversation about AI and its possible futures. Sharing her perspective as a leading insider in technology and politics, she rejects the dominant narrative, which often likens AI’s advent to that of the atomic bomb. History points the way to an achievable future in which democratically determined values guide AI to be peaceful in its intent; to embrace limitations; to serve purpose, not profit; and to be firmly rooted in societal trust.

AI Needs You gives us hope that we, the people, can imbue AI with a deep intentionality that reflects our best values, ideals, and interests, and that serves the public good. AI will permeate our lives in unforeseeable ways, but it is clear that the shape of AI’s future–and of our own–cannot be left only to those building it. It is up to us to guide this technology away from our worst fears and toward a future that we can trust and believe in.

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"A timely and fascinating new book by the former Downing Street aide-turned-tech executive Verity Harding, which argues that it's high time the public got a say on what kind of world we actually want to live in. . . . Harding, who knows these two incestuous worlds better than most, is right, however, that this extraordinary chapter of human history doesn't have to end in catastrophe, or in angry mobs rising up against a tech elite perceived as having gone too far. . . . For now, at least, there's still power in being human. But only if we use it."–-Gaby Hinsliff, The Guardian
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Details

ISBN-10: 0691244871
ISBN-13: 9780691244877
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publish Date: 03/12/2024
Dimensions: 8.60" L, 5.60" W, 1.20" H
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