Prophecy prediction, power, and the fight for the future, from ancient oracles to AI
"From an award-winning University of Oxford professor comes a brilliant, urgent new look at prophecies--the predictions that determine our lives, from our personal finances and the quality of our healthcare to the news and social media we consume and the produces foisted upon us. Today's computer sc...
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New York, NY :
Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC,
2026.
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| Edition: | First Doubleday hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Overture : what's in a prediction?
- Prophets and power : a brief history of prediction, or why astrologers get thrown off cliffs
- Conquering uncertainty and taming risk : the mathematization of decision-making
- The ultimate prediction machine : artificial intelligence is the new oracle of Delphi
- Likeness to truth : why educated guesses are not facts
- When predictions become verdicts : on the tyranny of surveillance and self-fulfilling prophecies
- The crystal ball is cracked : why the unforeseeable is never going away, and how forecasts can increase risk
- Truth, virtue and beauty : why ideals outdo predictions
- Defying the odds : on using creativity, humor, and resilience to flip the script
- How to thrive amid uncertainty : curiosity, fearlessness, and philosophy as antidotes to prophecy
- Epilogue : ten lessons in prediction
- Postscript : AI ethics 101 : digital tech's original sins.
