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The Loop - How Technology is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back (Hardcover)
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"The best book I have ever read about AI." -Roger McNamee, New York
Times bestselling author of Zucked Artificial intelligence is going
to change the world as we know it. But the real danger isn't some
robot that's going to enslave us: It's our own brain. Our brains
are constantly making decisions using shortcuts, biases, and hidden
processes-and we're using those same techniques to create
technology that makes choices for us. In The Loop, award-winning
science journalist Jacob Ward reveals how we are poised to build
all of our worst instincts into our AIs, creating a narrow loop
where each generation has fewer, predetermined, and even dangerous
choices. Taking us on a world tour of the ongoing, real-world
experiment of artificial intelligence, The Loop illuminates the
dangers of writing dangerous human habits into our machines. From a
biometric surveillance state in India that tracks the movements of
over a billion people, to a social media control system in China
that punishes deviant friendships, to the risky multiple-choice
simplicity of automated military action, Ward travels the world
speaking with top experts confronting the perils of their research.
Each stop reveals how the most obvious patterns in our
behavior-patterns an algorithm will use to make decisions about
what's best for us-are not the ones we want to perpetuate. Just as
politics, marketing, and finance have all exploited the weaknesses
of our human programming, artificial intelligence is poised to use
the patterns of our lives to manipulate us. The Loop is call to
look at ourselves more clearly-our most creative ideas, our most
destructive impulses, the ways we help and hurt one another-so we
can put only the best parts of ourselves into the thinking machines
we create.
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