Etik: vetenskaplig & teknisk utveckling

AI är på god väg att revolutionera vår värld. Utvecklingen för med sig mycket gott, men också problem och risker. Redan i dag diskuteras de polariserande filterbubblor och falska nyheter, den massövervakning, automatiserade diskriminering och spri...

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'This book is not just about life, but about discovery itself. It is about error and hubris, but also about wonder and the reach of science. And it is bookended with the ultimate question: How do we define the thing that defines us?' - Siddhartha ...

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BEKVÄM SLÅR RÄDD. Digitaliseringen skulle bli en demokratisk guldålder. Men vi var inte redo. I stället offrade vi det mesta som gör oss till självständiga individer för att få ha det bekvämt. I dag kontrollerar en handfull techjättar allt från vå...

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Det här är en fascinerande guide till alla utmaningar och val i vår strävan efter en fantastisk framtid för liv, intelligens och medvetande på jorden och långt ut i rymden. Elon Musk, grundare av SpaceX och Tesla Motors Alla bör fråga sig vad vi n...

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THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S TOP BOOKS OF THE YEAR Shortlisted for The Orwell Prize 2020 Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year Award 2019 'Easily the most important b...

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** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ** The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies. The story begins in an Augustinian abbey in 1856, and takes the reader ...

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From two of the world's leading authorities on dogs, an imaginative journey into a future of dogs without people What would happen to dogs if humans simply disappeared? Would dogs be able to survive on their own without us? A Dog's World imagines ...

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The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive 'The Event': the societal catastrophe t...

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'Required reading for everyone' Adam Rutherford Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021 Medicine, education, psychology, economics - wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance. But what if science itself can't al...

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THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WORLD IS FLAT We all sense it: something big is going on. Life is speeding up, and it is dizzying. Here Thomas L. Friedman reveals the tectonic movements that are reshaping our world, how to ...

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can't be fixed. Instead of helping to address our current crises, AI causes divisions that limit people's life chances, and even suggests fascistic solutions ...

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Nästan alla vuxna svenskar använder dagligen digitala bank-id:n, för betalningar och bankärenden, men också för kontakter med myndigheter, skolor och vårdinstitutioner. Ett bank-id har blivit en förutsättning för att kunna delta i samhället. Hur k...

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Digitaliseringen pågår oförtrutet. Att den har förändrat samhället är uppenbart, men det börjar också bli tydligt att dessa förändringar är högst motsägelsefulla. Tekniken underlättar kontakt, men har också bidragit till distans mellan människor. ...

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Will technology change what it means to be human? You don't have to be a computer scientist to have discerning conversations about artificial intelligence and technology. We all wonder where we're headed. Even now, technological innovations and ma...

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Compared with its competitors it is, to me, better written, more 'approachable' and with better pedagogic features.   Dr Mark Fowler, De Montfort University     The main strength of this book is that it is a very good overall book f...

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We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what we can do? How did we become people who effortlessly present our lives in social media profiles and ...

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Digital technologies should be making life easier. And to a large degree they are, transforming everyday tasks of work, consumption, communication, travel and play. But they are also accelerating and fragmenting our lives affecting our well-being ...

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Over the last five years, widespread concern about the effects of social media on democracy has led to an explosion in research from different disciplines and corners of academia. This book is the first of its kind to take stock of this emerging m...

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** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER **The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies.The story begins in an Augustinian abbey in 1856, and takes the reader fr...

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"e;The Allen Carr method has helped millions quit smoking. Now its experts are determined to tackle the UK's obsession with digital devices"e; - Daily Express"e;You'll be aware off how your devices affect you and most of all, you will ...

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'If you think you understand AI and all of the related issues, you don't. By the time you finish this exceptionally lucid and riveting book you will breathe more easily and wisely' - Michael Gazzaniga A leading computer scientist brings human sens...

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In this fascinating follow-up to the bestselling Information is Beautiful and Knowledge is Beautiful, the king of infographics David McCandless uses spectacular visuals to give us all a bit of good news. We are living in the Information Age, in wh...

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As discrete fields of inquiry, rhetoric and mathematics have long been considered antithetical to each other. That is, if mathematics explains or describes the phenomena it studies with certainty, persuasion is not needed. This volume calls into q...

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There is a growing awareness among researchers in the humanities and social sciences of the rhetorical force of mathematical discourse-whether in regard to gerrymandering, facial recognition technologies, or racial biases in algorithmic automation...

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In the eighteen years since Ivan Illich's death, David Cayley has been reflecting on the meaning of his friend and teacher's life and work. Now, in Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey, he presents Illich's body of thought, locating it in its own ...

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Ända sedan 1800-talets början har det funnits en rädsla för att konstgjorda intelligenser ska ta över världen. Då var det Frankensteins monster, nu är det AI (artificiell intelligens) som uppfattas som ett hot. Genombrottet för AI kom då teknikern...

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In Dark Winter, world-leading epidemiologist Professor Raina MacIntyre navigates the past, present and future of pandemics and biosecurity. MacIntyre examines the history of biological warfare (and why it is called the 'poor man's nuke'), Soviet a...

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Jennifer Doudna, the world-famous scientist behind CRISPR, `one of the most monumental discoveries in biology' (New York Times), explains its discovery, describes its power to reshape the future of all life and warns of its use. 'Urgent, riveting ...

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People often believe that we can overcome the profound environmental and climate crises we face by smart systems, green innovations and more recycling. However, the quest for complex technological solutions, which rely on increasingly exotic and s...

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Tänk dig att kunna förutse cancer innan ens tumören uppstått, förutspå en epidemi innan det blir en pandemi, se till att val blir rakt igenom demokratiska eller varför inte göra oss koldioxidneutrala? Den här boken är för dig som vill surfa på den...

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