Hugo Neri is researcher at the Center for Artificial Intelligence at IBM/University of Sao Paulo/ Sao Paulo Research Foundation and postdoc at the Department of Mechatronics Engineering and Mechanical Systems of University of São Paulo.

There is now considerable hype, and perhaps excessive hysteria, around Artificial Intelligence and its consequences. Neri's book is a scholarly appraisal of the actual risks faced by society with respect to Artificial Intelligence, a valuable and balanced companion to researchers curious about the effects of this technology, and an essential reading to anyone interested in its perception by society.

• Chapter 1: Risk, Imagination, and Artificial IntelligenceChapter 2: We Wanted to Try: Imagined Robots and Mathematical Experiments Pre-1960s(in collaboration with Veridiana Domingos Cordeiro)Chapter 3: We Have Something to Do: Defining Artificial Intelligence Amid the Scientific Space Odyssey in the 1960s and 1970sChapter 4: We Thought We Could Do It: Human-Machine Symbiosis, Heavy Investments, and the Raising of Futurists in the 1980s/1990sChapter 5: Are We Almost There?: Cutting Edge A.I. Developments, Social Media, and Politics in the 21st CenturyChapter 6: Let Us Understand Our Relationship with Artificial Intelligence(in Collaboration with Veridiana Domingos Cordeiro)