Handover (eBook)

How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs

David Runciman (Autor)

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2023
367 Seiten
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-621-6 (ISBN)

Infos

'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.

Rezensionen

Refreshingly free of received and rehearsed wisdoms, Runciman doesn't tiptoe around sacred cows and invites us to take part in that most adult way of thinking: to examine contradictory ideas in tandem and ponder what the dissonance amounts to

Compelling ... David Runciman makes salutary arguments [about] the most urgent problem we face

Runciman's erudition is formidable ... a wide-ranging history of the modern state and an exploration of how AI technology may change the world [from] one of our leading public intellectuals

Quirky, meditational, disturbing ... original thinking

Runciman's flair for turning a pithy and pungent phrase is one of the things to admire about his writing ... That and [his] cogency, subtlety and style

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.9.2023
• Zusatzinfo: B&W photos throughout
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: AI • Confronting Leviathan • Cybernetics • history of ideas • how democracy ends • Philosophy • talking politics • The Singularity • the State • Thomas Hobbes
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-621-7 / 1782836217
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-621-6 / 9781782836216