Binding: Hardcover
Description: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non - Fiction A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence revealing the perils and inequities of our growing reliance on automated decision - making On the surface a British poet an Uber Eats courier in Pittsburgh an Indian doctor and a Chinese activist in exile have nothing in common. But they are in fact linked by a profound common experience unexpected encounters with artificial intelligence. In Code Dependent Murgia shows how automated systems are reshaping our lives all over the world from technology that marks children as future criminals to an app that is helping to give diagnoses to a remote tribal community. AI has already infiltrated our day - to - day through language - generating chatbots like Chat GPT and social media. But it's also affecting us in more insidious ways. It touches everything from our interpersonal relationships to our kids education work finances public services and even our human rights. By highlighting the voices of ordinary people in places far removed from the cozy enclave of Silicon Valley Code Dependent explores the impact of a set of powerful flawed and often - exploitative technologies on individuals communities and our wider society. Murgia exposes how AI can strip away our collective and individual sense of agency and shatter our illusion of free will. The ways in which algorithms and their effects are governed over the coming years will profoundly impact us all. Yet we can t agree on a common path forward. We cannot decide what preferences and morals we want to encode in these entities or what controls we may want to impose on them. And thus we are collectively relinquishing our moral authority to machines. In Code Dependent Murgia not only sheds light on this chilling phenomenon but also charts a path of resistance. AI is already changing what it means to be human in ways large and small and Murgia reveals what could happen if we fail to reclaim our humanity.
Title: Code Dependent Living In The Shadow Of Ai
Author(s): Murgia Madhumita
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9781250867391
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/18/2024