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The Big Nine : how the tech titans and their thinking machines could warp humanity / Amy Webb.

The Big Nine : how the tech titans and their thinking machines could warp humanity / Amy Webb.
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ISBN 9781541724419 (paperback)
Name Webb, Amy, 1974- author.
Title The Big Nine : how the tech titans and their thinking machines could warp humanity / Amy Webb.
Published New York, NY : PublicAffairs, [2019]
©2019
Description 320 pages ; 24 cm
Notes "March 2019"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-297) and index.
Contents Introduction : before it's too late -- Part I. Ghosts in the machine. Mind and machine : a very brief history of AI -- The insular world of AI's tribes -- A thousand paper cuts : AI's unintended consequences -- Part II. Our futures. From here to artificial superintelligence : the warning signs -- Thriving in the third age of computing : the optimistic scenario -- Learning to live with millions of paper cuts : the pragmatic scenario -- The Réngōng Zhìnéng Dynasty : the catastrophic scenario -- Part III. Solving the problems. Pebbles and boulders : how to fix AI's future.
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.
Subjects Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects
Artificial intelligence -- Economic aspects
Internet industry -- Social aspects
Social responsibility of business
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