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

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

Amy Webb, 1974-

Book - 2019

"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.

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Subjects
Artificial intelligence > Social aspects.
Artificial intelligence > Economic aspects.
Internet industry > Social aspects.
Social responsibility of business.
Published
New York, NY : PublicAffairs [2019]
Language
English
Main Author
Amy Webb, 1974- (author)
Edition
First edition
Item Description
"March 2019"--Title page verso.
Physical Description
320 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-297) and index.
ISBN
9781541773752
  • Introduction: Before It's Too Late
  • Part I. Ghosts in the Machine
  • 1. Mind and Machine: A Very Brief History of AI
  • 2. The Insular World of AI's Tribes
  • 3. A Thousand Paper Cuts: AI's Unintended Consequences
  • Part II. Our Futures
  • 4. From Here to Artificial Superintelligence: The Warning Signs
  • 5. Thriving in the Third Age of Computing: The Optimistic Scenario
  • 6. Learning to Live with Millions of Paper Cuts: The Pragmatic Scenario
  • 7. The Rengong Zhineng Dynasty: The Catastrophic Scenario
  • Part III. Solving the Problems
  • 8. Pebbles and Boulders: How to Fix AI's Future
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Notes
  • Index
Review by Booklist Review

NYU professor Webb (The Signals Are Talking, 2016) here explores the roles and directions of artificial intelligence by examining how the ""big nine"" harness the data that's now being constantly collected, organized, and analyzed by machines. Readers may already be familiar with the big nine companies: IBM, Alibaba, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Tencent, Apple, and Baidu. Using government reports, news-media publications, and scholarly articles, Webb traces the history and trajectory of artificial intelligence. She describes the implications of AI, from personal-data collection to technological advancements, by forecasting what may come from these experiences, particularly in the U.S. and China. Her writing is very clear and accessible, and the interesting analogies she uses to illustrate what may occur when algorithms make decisions for us make for compelling reading. This fascinating look at how AI will continue to revolutionize human experiences in unimaginable ways will appeal to anyone interested in AI, human-computer interactions, and machine learning in the private and public sectors.--Raymond Pun Copyright 2010 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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