{"product_id":"books-surviving-ai-by-calum-chace","title":"Surviving AI","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtificial intelligence is our most powerful technology, and in the coming decades it will change everything in our lives. If we get it right it will make humans almost godlike. If we get it wrong... well, extinction is not the worst possible outcome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurviving AI is a concise, easy-to-read guide to what's coming, taking you through technological unemployment (the economic singularity) and the possible creation of a superintelligence (the technological singularity).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere's what some of the leading thinkers in the field have to say about it: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sober and easy-to-read review of the risks and opportunities that humanity will face from AI.\u003c\/p\u003eJaan Tallinn - co-founder of Skype\u003cp\u003eUnderstanding AI - its promise and its dangers - is emerging as one of the great challenges of coming decades and this is an invaluable guide to anyone who's interested, confused, excited or scared.\u003c\/p\u003e David Shukman - BBC Science Editor\u003cp\u003eWe have recently seen a surge in the volume of scholarly analysis of this topic; Chace impressively augments that with this high-quality, more general-audience discussion.\u003c\/p\u003eAubrey de Grey - CSO of SENS Research Foundation; former AI researcher\u003cp\u003eIt's rare to see a book about the potential End of the World that is fun to read without descending into sensationalism or crass oversimplification. \u003c\/p\u003eBen Goertzel - chairman of Novamente LLC\u003cp\u003eCalum Chace is a prescient messenger of the risks and rewards of artificial intelligence. In Surviving AI he has identified the most essential issues and developed them with insight and wit - so that the very framing of the questions aids our search for answers. Chace's sensible balance between AI's promise and peril makes Surviving AI an excellent primer for anyone interested in what's happening, how we got here, and where we are headed. \u003c\/p\u003eKenneth Cukier - co-author of Big Data\u003cp\u003eIf you're not thinking about AI, you're not thinking. Surviving AI combines an essential grounding in the state of the art with a survey of scenarios that will be discussed with equal vigor at cocktail parties and academic colloquia.\u003c\/p\u003eChris Meyer - author of Blur, It's Alive, and Standing on the Sun\u003cp\u003eThe appearance of Calum Chace's book is of some considerable personal satisfaction to me, because it signifies the fact that the level of social awareness of the rise of massively intelligent machines has finally reached the mainstream. If you want to survive the next few decades, you cannot afford NOT to read Chace's book.\u003c\/p\u003eProf. Dr. Hugo de Garis - former director of the Artificial Brain Lab, Xiamen University, China\u003cp\u003eSurviving AI is an exceptionally clear, well-researched and balanced introduction to a complex and controversial topic, and is a compelling read to boot.\u003c\/p\u003eSe n   h igeartaigh - executive director of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk\u003cp\u003eIn Surviving AI, Calum Chace provides a marvellously accessible guide to the swirls of controversy that surround discussion of what is likely to be the single most important event in human history - the emergence of artificial superintelligence. Throughout, Surviving AI remains clear and jargon-free.\u003c\/p\u003eDavid Wood - chair of London Futurists\u003cp\u003eArtificial intelligence is the most important technology of our era. Technological unemployment could force us to adopt an entirely new economic structure, and the creation of superintelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Surviving AI is a first-class introduction to all of this.\u003c\/p\u003eBrad Feld - co-founder of Techstars","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53507579576593,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780993211621.jpg?v=1778130330","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-surviving-ai-by-calum-chace","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}