The Big Nine : how the tech titans and their thinking machines could warp humanity / Amy Webb.

The Big Nine : how the tech titans and their thinking machines could warp humanity / Amy Webb.

Alternate Title
Big 9

By
Webb, Amy, 1974-

Publication Date
2019

Publication Information
New York : PublicAffairs,

Edition
First edition.

Physical Description
320 p.

Subject Term
Artificial intelligence.
 
Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects.
 
Internet industry -- Social aspects.
 
Social responsibility of business.

Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-297) and index.

Summary
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.

Language
English

ISBN
9781541773752


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