The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs - Couverture souple

Runciman, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1788163680 ISBN 13 : 9781788163682

Editeur : Profile Books Ltd, 2024

Synopsis

'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened before.

A few hundred years ago, humans started building the robots that now rule our world. They are called states and corporations: immensely powerful artificial entities, with capacities that go far beyond what any individual can do, and which, unlike us, need never die.

They have made us richer, safer and healthier than would have seemed possible even a few generations ago - and they may yet destroy us. The Handover distils over three hundred years of thinking about how to live with artificial agency.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Runciman is Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and the author of many books about politics, including The Politics of Good Intentions (2006), Political Hypocrisy (2008) and The Confidence Trap (2013). He writes regularly about politics and current affairs for a wide range of publications including the London Review of Books.
Politics is the first book in Profile's new Ideas in Profile series.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Does it matter if we are ceding power to AI? Especially if we have been there before.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Profile Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788163680
• ISBN 13: 9781788163682
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Hondiuslaan 44; Utrecht; 3528 AB; Pays-Bas