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The New York Times–bestselling author of Rise of the Robots shows what happens as AI takes over our lives 

If you have a smartphone, you have AI in your pocket. AI is impossible to avoid online. And it has already changed everything from how doctors diagnose disease to how you interact with friends or read the news. But in Rule of the Robots, Martin Ford argues that the true revolution is yet to come. 

In this sequel to his prescient New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots, Ford presents us with a striking vision of the very near future. He argues that AI is a uniquely powerful technology that is altering every dimension of human life, often for the better. For example, advanced science is being done by machines, solving devilish problems in molecular biology that humans could not, and AI can help us fight climate change or the next pandemic. It also has a capacity for profound harm. Deep fakes—AI-generated audio or video of events that never happened—are poised to cause havoc throughout society. AI empowers authoritarian regimes like China with unprecedented mechanisms for social control. And AI can be deeply biased, learning bigoted attitudes from us and perpetuating them. 

In short, this is not a technology to simply embrace, or let others worry about. The machines are coming, and they won’t stop, and each of us needs to know what that means if we are to thrive in the twenty-first century. And Rule of the Robots is the essential guide to all of it: both AI and the future of our economy, our politics, our lives. 
 

ISBN-13: 9781541674738

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Basic Books

Publication Date: 09-14-2021

Pages: 320

Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.30(d)

Martin Ford is the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm. He is the author of Rise of the Robots, which won the FT Business Book of the Year Award; The Lights in the Tunnel; and Architects of Intelligence. Ford lives in Sunnyvale, California.

Table of Contents

1 The Emerging Disruption 1

2 Al as the New Electricity 11

3 Beyond Hype: A Realist's View of Artificial Intelligence as a Utility 31

4 The Quest to Build Intelligent Machines 93

5 Deep Learning and the Future of Artificial Intelligence 109

6 Disappearing Jobs and the Economic Consequences of Al 161

7 China and the Rise of the Al Surveillance State 201

8 Al Risks 233

Conclusion: Two Al Futures 265

Acknowledgments 271

Notes 273

Index 297