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The reverse centaur's guide to life after AI: how to think about artificial intelligence - before it's too late
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Whether you want to criticise, kill, or use AI, you have to get through the hype and uncover the real story. Start with labour: in automation theory, a centaur is a person who chooses to use technology to help them do the things that matter to them. A reverse centaur is a person who has been conscripted to serve as a helper for a machine, at an inhuman, machine pace: a driver made to deliver all day long, nonstop; a warehouse worker made to work without food or bathroom breaks; a programmer made to crank out impossible amounts of code. As Doctorow says: it's not enough to ask what the technology does - we have to understand who it's doing it for and who it's doing it to. In this book, Doctorow recounts both how we found ourselves in this dire situation and how we can get through it, to a life 'after' AI in which the tools work for us, not the other way around.
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- Science
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- English
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- 9781836745525
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