Binding: Paperback
Description: AI is revolutionizing the world. Here's how democracies can come out on top. Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the modern world. It is ubiquitous in our homes and offices in the present and most certainly in the future. Today we encounter AI as our distant ancestors once encountered fire. If we manage AI well it will become a force for good lighting the way to many transformative inventions. If we deploy it thoughtlessly it will advance beyond our control. If we wield it for destruction it will fan the flames of a new kind of war one that holds democracy in the balance. As AI policy experts Ben Buchanan and Andrew Imbrie show in The New Fire few choices are more urgent or more fascinating than how we harness this technology and for what purpose. The new fire has three sparks: data algorithms and computing power. These components fuel viral disinformation campaigns new hacking tools and military weapons that once seemed like science fiction. To autocrats AI offers the prospect of centralized control at home and asymmetric advantages in combat. It is easy to assume that democracies bound by ethical constraints and disjointed in their approach will be unable to keep up. But such a dystopia is hardly preordained. Combining an incisive understanding of technology with shrewd geopolitical analysis Buchanan and Imbrie show how AI can work for democracy. With the right approach technology need not favor tyranny.
Title: The New Fire War Peace And Democracy In The Age Of Ai
Author(s): Imbrie Andrew
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Barcode: 9780262548489
Pages: 344 Pages, 8 Figures
Publication Date: 3/5/2024
Category: Information Technology: General