Book Reviews
THE MIND AND THE MACHINE: What it Means to Be Human, and Why It Matters
THE MIND AND THE MACHINE: What it Means to Be Human, and Why It Matters by Matthew T. Dickerson What does it mean to be human? Or, put more narrowly in light of the advances of AI and neuroscience, should we think of humans as simply a complex form of...
DEEP MEDICINE: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
DEEP MEDICINE: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again by Eric Topol It turns out that schizophrenia is not just a medical condition, it’s also an apt way to think about Eric Topol’s new book, DEEP MEDICINE: How Artificial Intelligence Can...
THE BIG NINE: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
THE BIG NINE: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity by Amy Webb In The Big Nine, Amy Webb visits the AI-driven near-future world to which nine tech titans — and two governments — are together giving birth. More precisely, Webb projects...
AI and Job Loss (Kai-Fu Lee Echoes the Wisdom of Jesus)
There is growing concern about an AI-driven future in which there aren’t enough jobs to go around. Not just a shortage of good jobs, mind you, but a shortage of jobs, period. A swelling chorus of economists and other experts foresee a future in which highly-skilled,...
The Social Media Peril — Part III
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, by Roger McNamee Zucked is Roger McNamee’s narrative of a good romance gone bad — except that the behaviors that led to the relationship breakup happen to be global, not personal. McNamee is a long-time, prominent member...
The Social Media Peril — Part II
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, by Shoshana Zuboff Of the three books under review, Shoshana Zuboff’s is easily the most distinctive. In The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at...