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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
1631496948
ISBN-13
9781631496943
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25058616448
Product Key Features
Book Title
Handover : How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States, and Ais
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Intelligence (Ai) & Semantics, History & Theory, Corporate & Business History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Computers, Political Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
19.9 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2024-441450
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20231122
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Surely one of the most luminously intelligent [writers] on politics to have been published for many years., Amid a headlong international panic about a looming robot insurrection, David Runciman offers a searching history of earlier takeovers by other artificial creatures of our own making--states and corporations--and a stirring call for a new and fortified commitment to all that is human.--Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States David Runciman is always fascinating.--Adam Tooze One of the great modern writers of democracy.--Anne Applebaum Surely one of the most luminously intelligent [writers] on politics to have been published for many years.--New Statesman (UK), Amid a headlong international panic about a looming robot insurrection, David Runciman offers a searching history of earlier takeovers by other artificial creatures of our own making--states and corporations--and a stirring call for a new and fortified commitment to all that is human., [A] searching meditation on creeping dehumanization . . . Runciman's approach to these issues is less technological than social and psychological . . . The result is a shrewd and stimulating look at society's drive toward an inhuman perfection., [W]itty and refined . . . Runciman's basic argument, which unfolds in the elegantly shaggy manner of a Peripatetic seminar, is that the alignment problem is not in fact an anomaly, and that the coming singularity might best be historicized as the Second Singularity. . . . he turns a standard argumentative form on its head. It's not that we can look to the past to help us solve the alignment problems of the future. It's that the alignment problems of the future help clarify our existing sense that everything is intractable and wrong. . . . Runciman's point is that the alliance between even a democratic government and a safe-ish A.I. could derail civilization.
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The
Dewey Decimal
128.4
Synopsis
An eminent political thinker uses our history with states and corporations--"artificial agents" to which we have granted immense power--to predict how AI will remake society., "[W]itty and refined . . . Runciman's point is that the alliance between even a democratic government and a safe-ish A.I. could derail civilization." --Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker An eminent political thinker uses our history with states and corporations--"artificial agents" to which we have granted immense power--to predict how AI will remake society., Countless books, news reports, and opinion pieces have announced the impending arrival of artificial intelligence, with most claiming that it will upend our world, revolutionizing not just work but society overall. Yet according to political philosopher and historian David Runciman, we've actually been living with a version of AI for 300 years because states and corporations are robots, too. In The Handover, Runciman explains our current situation through the history of these "artificial agents" we created to rescue us from our all-too-human limitations--and demonstrates what this radical new view of our recent past means for our collective future. From the United States and the United Kingdom to the East India Company, Standard Oil, Facebook, and Alibaba, states and corporations have gradually, and then much more rapidly, taken over the planet. They have helped to conquer poverty and eliminate disease, but also unleashed global wars and environmental degradation. As Runciman demonstrates, states and corporations are the ultimate decision-making machines, defined by their ability to make their own choices and, crucially, to sustain the consequences of what has been chosen. And if the rapid spread of the modern state and corporation has already transformed the conditions of human existence, new AI technology promises the same. But what happens when AI interacts with other kinds of artificial agents, the inhuman kind represented by states and corporations? Runciman argues that the twenty-first century will be defined by increasingly intense battles between state and corporate power for the fruits of the AI revolution. In the end, it is not our own, human relationship with AI that will determine our future. Rather, humanity's fate will be shaped by the interactions among states, corporations, and thinking machines. With clarity and verve, The Handover presents a brilliantly original history of the last three centuries and a new understanding of the immense challenges we now face., Countless books, news reports, and opinion pieces have announced the impending arrival of artificial intelligence, with most claiming that it will upend our world, revolutionizing not just work but society overall. Yet according to political philosopher and historian David Runciman, we've actually been living with a version of AI for 300 years because states and corporations are robots, too. In The Handover , Runciman explains our current situation through the history of these "artificial agents" we created to rescue us from our all-too-human limitations--and demonstrates what this radical new view of our recent past means for our collective future. From the United States and the United Kingdom to the East India Company, Standard Oil, Facebook, and Alibaba, states and corporations have gradually, and then much more rapidly, taken over the planet. They have helped to conquer poverty and eliminate disease, but also unleashed global wars and environmental degradation. As Runciman demonstrates, states and corporations are the ultimate decision-making machines, defined by their ability to make their own choices and, crucially, to sustain the consequences of what has been chosen. And if the rapid spread of the modern state and corporation has already transformed the conditions of human existence, new AI technology promises the same. But what happens when AI interacts with other kinds of artificial agents, the inhuman kind represented by states and corporations? Runciman argues that the twenty-first century will be defined by increasingly intense battles between state and corporate power for the fruits of the AI revolution. In the end, it is not our own, human relationship with AI that will determine our future. Rather, humanity's fate will be shaped by the interactions among states, corporations, and thinking machines. With clarity and verve, The Handover presents a brilliantly original history of the last three centuries and a new understanding of the immense challenges we now face.
LC Classification Number
JC11.R86 2023
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