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

"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. The big nine corporations (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple) may be inadvertently building an...

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Main Author: Webb, Amy, 1974- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : PublicAffairs, [2019]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Artificial intelligence > Social aspects.
Artificial intelligence > Economic aspects.
Internet industry > Social aspects.
Social responsibility of business.
Summary: "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. The big nine corporations (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple) 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."--Provided by publisher.
Item Description: "March 2019"--Title page verso.
Physical Description: 320 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-297) and index.
ISBN: 9781541773752
1541773756
1541724410
9781541724419
Author Notes: Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist whose research focus is on artificial intelligence and how emerging technologies will transform the way we live, work, and govern. She is the author of The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream , a professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business, and the founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading future forecasting firm that helps leaders and their organizations prepare for complex futures.

Now in its second decade, FTI advises Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, government agencies, large nonprofits, universities and startups around the world. Amy also publishes the annual FTI Emerging Tech Trends Report, which has now garnered more than 6.2 million cumulative views worldwide.

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