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The Handover

The Handover

by David Runciman
Paperback
Publication Date: 12/09/2023

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Does it matter if we are ceding power to AI? Especially if we have been there before.

'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened before.

A few hundred years ago, humans started building the robots that now rule our world. They are called states and corporations: immensely powerful artificial entities, with capacities that go far beyond what any individual can do, and which, unlike us, need never die.

They have made us richer, safer and healthier than would have seemed possible even a few generations ago - and they may yet destroy us. The Handover distils over three hundred years of thinking about how to live with artificial agency.

ISBN:
9781805220015
9781805220015
Category:
Social & cultural history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
12-09-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Profile Books Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
234x153mm
David Runciman

David Runciman is Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies.

He is the author of five previous books, including Political Hypocrisy, The Confidence Trap and Politics (for the Ideas in Profile series).

He writes regularly about politics for the London Review of Books and hosts the widely acclaimed weekly podcast Talking Politics.

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