The Big Nine : how the tech titans and their thinking machines could warp humanity

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A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI--the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself--is broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity. Much more than a passionate, human-centered call-to-arms, this book delivers a strategy for changing course, and provides a path for liberating us from algorithmic decision-makers and powerful corporations.  Read more... Ghosts in the machine -- Mind and machine : a very brief history of AI -- The insular world of AI's tribes -- A thousand paper cuts : AI's unintended consequences -- Our futures -- From here to artificial superintelligence : three warning signs -- Thriving in the third age of computing : the optimistic scenario -- Learning to live with millions of paper cuts : the pragmatic scenario -- The Rengong Zhineng Dynasty : the catastrophic scenario -- Solving the problems -- Pebbles and boulders : how to fix AI's future.