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AI Needs You
How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our OwnBy Verity HardingNarrated by Daisy DonovanLength8h 30m
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This audiobook narrated by Daisy Donovan shares an electrifying vision of how we can safeguard AI's future for the public good
Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out what—and who—this technology is really for.
AI Needs You argues that it is critical for society to take the lead in answering this urgent question and ensuring that AI fulfills its promise.
Verity Harding draws inspiring lessons from the histories of three twentieth-century tech revolutions—the space race, in vitro fertilization, and the internet—to empower each of us to join the conversation about AI and its possible futures. Sharing her perspective as a leading insider in technology and politics, she rejects the dominant narrative, which often likens AI's advent to that of the atomic bomb. History points the way to an achievable future in which democratically determined values guide AI to be peaceful in its intent; to embrace limitations; serve purpose, not profit; and to be firmly rooted in societal trust.
AI Needs You gives us hope that we, the people, can imbue AI with a deep intentionality that reflects our best values, ideals, and interests, and that serves the public good. AI will permeate our lives in unforeseeable ways, but it is clear that the shape of AI's future—and of our own—cannot be left only to those building it. It is up to us to guide this technology away from our worst fears toward a future that we can trust and believe in.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology
Length8 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byDaisy Donovan
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMar 12, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Anno, Dedication
8Chapter 4 - Purpose and Profit - The Internet before 9-11
2Author's Note
9Chapter 4 - Continued
3Chapter 1 - Shadow Self
10Chapter 5 - Trust and Terror - The Internet Post 9-11
4Chapter 2 - Peace and War - Space Exploration and the UN Outer Space Treaty
11Chapter 5 - Continued
5Chapter 2 - Continued
12Conclusion - Lessons from History
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6Chapter 3 - Science and Scrutiny - IVF and the Warnock Commission
13Closing Anno
7Chapter 3 - Continued