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AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI’s Future and Save Our Own
Verity Harding
Princeton University Press, £20
THE long-running hype, and even moral panic, about the development and application of AI technologies has produced a hot topic for writers on technology.
This book takes a different approach from most previous works, neither subscribing to “doomerism” (as in “AI will wipe out humanity”) nor to the almost religious optimism of the big tech companies. Instead it examines past cases where technology has been controlled and regulated as guides to how “we” might deal with AI technologies.
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