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The Delegated Life

Who Answers When Machines Act

by Ronald Charron ...

Series Book 1 - The Delegated Life
An AI assistant already reads your calendar. Soon one will answer your email, spend your money, and negotiate in your name — if it doesn't already.Your employer is deploying agents into hiring, purchasing, and operations. Your government is deploying them into everything else. Nobody will ask you to approve this transfer of authority. It arrives as convenience, one default at a time — until the ... Read more

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An AI assistant already reads your calendar. Soon one will answer your email, spend your money, and negotiate in your name — if it doesn't already.Your employer is deploying agents into hiring, purchasing, and operations. Your government is deploying them into everything else. Nobody will ask you to approve this transfer of authority. It arrives as convenience, one default at a time — until the
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Delegated Life, The

Who Answers When Machines Act?

by Ronald Charron ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Martin G ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Delegated Life
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4 hours 29 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.An AI assistant already reads your calendar. Soon one will answer your email, spend your money, and negotiate in your name — if it doesn't already.Your employer is deploying agents into hiring, purchasing, and operations. Your government is deploying them into everything else. Nobody will ask you to approve this transfer of authority. It arrives as ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.An AI assistant already reads your calendar. Soon one will answer your email, spend your money, and negotiate in your name — if it doesn't already.Your employer is deploying agents into hiring, purchasing, and operations. Your government is deploying them into everything else. Nobody will ask you to approve this transfer of authority. It arrives as
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AI Snake Oil

What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference

by Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor ...

**From two of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI—and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and productsConfused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You’re not alone. AI is everywhere—and few things are surrounded by so much hype, misinformation, and misunderstanding. In AI Snake Oil, computer ... Read more

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**From two of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI—and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and productsConfused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You’re not alone. AI is everywhere—and few things are surrounded by so much hype, misinformation, and misunderstanding. In AI Snake Oil, computer
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Superagency

What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future

by Reid Hoffman, Greg Beato ...

Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller.Tech visionary and co-founder of Manas AI Reid Hoffman shares his unique insider’s perspective on an AI-powered future, making the case for its potential to unlock a world of possibilities."An essential companion." — Fei-Fei Li"An important read." —Bill Gates"Brilliant mind. Compassionate heart. Bold ideas…Read this book!” —Van Jones"Refreshingly ... Read more

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Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller.Tech visionary and co-founder of Manas AI Reid Hoffman shares his unique insider’s perspective on an AI-powered future, making the case for its potential to unlock a world of possibilities."An essential companion." — Fei-Fei Li"An important read." —Bill Gates"Brilliant mind. Compassionate heart. Bold ideas…Read this book!” —Van Jones"Refreshingly
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Digital Transformation

Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction

by Thomas M. Siebel ...

The legendary Silicon Valley entrepreneur examines how both business and government organizations can harness the power of disruptive technologies.Tom Siebel, the billionaire technologist and founder of Siebel Systems, discusses how four technologies—elastic cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things—are fundamentally changing how business and government will ... Read more

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The legendary Silicon Valley entrepreneur examines how both business and government organizations can harness the power of disruptive technologies.Tom Siebel, the billionaire technologist and founder of Siebel Systems, discusses how four technologies—elastic cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things—are fundamentally changing how business and government will
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Proof of Stake

The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains

by Vitalik Buterin ...

**The new book from one of TIME's 2021 most influential peopleAuthor was in Forbes 30 Under 30 Hall of Fame"A crucial contribution to development of a new technology that will impact all of our lives.” –Laura Shin, host of the Unchained podcast and author of The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze“Vitalik Buterin is one of the most influential ... Read more

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**The new book from one of TIME's 2021 most influential peopleAuthor was in Forbes 30 Under 30 Hall of Fame"A crucial contribution to development of a new technology that will impact all of our lives.” –Laura Shin, host of the Unchained podcast and author of The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze“Vitalik Buterin is one of the most influential
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Generative Artificial Intelligence

What Everyone Needs to Know®

by Jerry Kaplan ...

Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
"AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended." - Francis Fukuyama, Political scientist and author of The End of History and the Last Man Advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) have created a new class of computer systems that exhibit astonishing proficiency on a wide variety of tasks with superhuman ... Read more

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"AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended." - Francis Fukuyama, Political scientist and author of The End of History and the Last Man Advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) have created a new class of computer systems that exhibit astonishing proficiency on a wide variety of tasks with superhuman
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Meganets

How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities

by David B. Auerbach ...

How the autonomous digital forces jolting our lives – as uncontrollable as the weather and plate tectonics – are transforming life, society, culture, and politics.David Auerbach’s exploration of the phenomenon he has identified as the meganet begins with a simple, startling revelation: There is no hand on the tiller of some of the largest global digital forces that influence our daily lives: from ... Read more

$18.99 USD

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How the autonomous digital forces jolting our lives – as uncontrollable as the weather and plate tectonics – are transforming life, society, culture, and politics.David Auerbach’s exploration of the phenomenon he has identified as the meganet begins with a simple, startling revelation: There is no hand on the tiller of some of the largest global digital forces that influence our daily lives: from
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A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence

by John Zerilli, John Danaher, James Maclaurin, Colin Gavaghan, Alistair Knott ...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR BEGINNERS: Get a concise, informative overview of AI ethics and policy—and how it could impact our society.Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has generated a staggering amount of hype in the past several years. Is it the game-changer it's been cracked up to be? If so, how is it changing the game? How is it likely to affect us as customers, tenants, aspiring home ... Read more

$21.99 USD

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR BEGINNERS: Get a concise, informative overview of AI ethics and policy—and how it could impact our society.Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has generated a staggering amount of hype in the past several years. Is it the game-changer it's been cracked up to be? If so, how is it changing the game? How is it likely to affect us as customers, tenants, aspiring home
... Read more
Silicon Empires

The Fight for the Future of AI

by Nick Srnicek ...

Since the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been heralded as a technology poised to revolutionize our world. But beyond the hype and hyperbole, who truly wields power over this transformative technology?In Silicon Empires, Nick Srnicek explores the geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence, revealing how a handful of powerful corporations and states are engaged in a monumental struggle ... Read more

$16.00 USD

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Since the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been heralded as a technology poised to revolutionize our world. But beyond the hype and hyperbole, who truly wields power over this transformative technology?In Silicon Empires, Nick Srnicek explores the geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence, revealing how a handful of powerful corporations and states are engaged in a monumental struggle
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Beyond Data

Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse

by Elizabeth M. Renieris ...

Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people—and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human dignity and autonomy in a cyberphysical world.Ever-pervasive technology poses a clear and present danger to human dignity and autonomy, as many have pointed out. And yet, for the past fifty years, we have been so busy protecting data that we have failed ... Read more

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Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people—and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human dignity and autonomy in a cyberphysical world.Ever-pervasive technology poses a clear and present danger to human dignity and autonomy, as many have pointed out. And yet, for the past fifty years, we have been so busy protecting data that we have failed
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The Means of Prediction

How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)

by Maximilian Kasy ...

Series series and Who Benefits
An eye-opening examination of how power—not technology—will define life with AI.AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms, job interviews, and wars. The ubiquity of AI is so great that it might produce public resignation—a sense that the technology is our shared fate.As economist Maximilian Kasy shows in The Means of Prediction, ... Read more

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An eye-opening examination of how power—not technology—will define life with AI.AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms, job interviews, and wars. The ubiquity of AI is so great that it might produce public resignation—a sense that the technology is our shared fate.As economist Maximilian Kasy shows in The Means of Prediction,
... Read more

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