Afraid of the Right Things
What AI Really Does, What It Changes, and Which Fears to KeepBy Gordon Rainsford
Length6h 21m
About this audiobook
On a Tuesday evening in October, four people read the same headline about machines that help build machines. One feared for her job, one for the first job he did not yet have, one for her children, and one that the thing itself might slip out of anyone’s hands.
Fear of AI sounds like one fear. It is at least six, and they rest on different evidence. This book explains in plain language what AI is actually doing, then takes each fear in turn and says what is known, what is disputed and what nobody knows yet. It offers five questions for any headline, what a family can do about cloned voices and fakes, what chatbots keep from your conversations, and the strongest arguments on both sides of the question of control.
It does not ask you to be less afraid. It asks you to be afraid of the right things, in the right measure, and to know which of them you can do something about.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology, Business and Economics
Length6 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 17, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening
2Introduction. Four People, One Headline
3Part one. The Shape of the Fear
4Chapter one. One Word, Six Fears
5Chapter two. Both at Once
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6Chapter three. We Have Been Afraid Before
7Part two. What Is Actually Happening
8Chapter four. How a Machine Learns to Talk
9Chapter five. Strong, Fast and Uneven
10Chapter six. Machines That Help Build Machines
11Chapter seven. A New Species or a Normal Technology
12Chapter eight. How to Read a Headline about AI
13Part three. Work
14Chapter nine. What the Numbers Show So Far
15Chapter ten. The First Rung
16Chapter eleven. The Daughters, Not the Mothers
17Chapter twelve. What Helps One Person
18Part four. Your Mind, What Is Real and Who You Love
19Chapter thirteen. Thinking with a Machine
20Chapter fourteen. When You Cannot Tell Anymore
21Chapter fifteen. Your Data
22Chapter sixteen. Your Children and the Machines
23Chapter seventeen. Lonely with a Machine
24Part five. The Big Questions
25Chapter eighteen. What the Warners Say
26Chapter nineteen. What the Skeptics Say
27Chapter twenty. What the Tests Show and What They Do Not
28Chapter twenty-one. What the Experts Estimate
29Chapter twenty-two. Power and Money
30Chapter twenty-three. Power Lines and Water
31Chapter twenty-four. Who Makes the Rules
32Conclusion. A Smaller, Sharper Fear
33Notes
34Immediate Help and Support
35Closing
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