Etik: vetenskaplig & teknisk utveckling

Hur kommer AI-utvecklingen att påverka dig, dina vänner och din familj? Hur kommer den att påverka ditt yrkesliv? Och vad innebär den för vårt demokratiska samhälle? Den tekniska utvecklingen kring AI gå...

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Artificiell intelligens finns överallt omkring oss idag. Maskiner tänker och agerar på alltmer sofistikerade sätt och lär sig samtidigt, på maskiners sätt, att varje dag förbättra sina prestationer. I takt med att samhället blir alltmer datafierat...

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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 i...

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I Kriget mot livet tar journalisten Per Shapiro oss med på en fascinerande upptäcktsfärd till en uråldrig visdomstradition. Där hittar han en unik förståelse av Jordens ursprung och en ¿möj¿lig väg ut ur den högteknologiska dystopi vi har hamnat i...

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'After reading Mitchells guide, youll know what you dont know and what other people dont know, even though they claim to know it. And thats invaluable'' The New York Times A leading computer scientist brings human sense to the AI bu...

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*A WATERSTONES 'BEST POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'* *A TIMES 'BEST PHILOSOPHY AND IDEAS' BOOK OF 2021* *A GUARDIAN 'BEST POLITICS BOOKS OF THE YEAR'* LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BUSINESS BOOK AWARD 'A brilliant manifes...

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species beyond recognition. The best person I know at predicting the future of AI BILL GATES 'Essential reading to understand our exp...

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The early promise of a free Internet is long gone. Now, rather than allowing us a meaningful relationship with a range of content of our choosing, algorithms have not only removed genuine choice but de-texturized the world around us: smoothed its ...

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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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AI håller på att revolutionera vår värld och hur vi lever våra liv. Den snabba utvecklingen innebär både möjligheter och risker. Vad händer om vi lyckas skapa en maskin som övertrumfar mänsklig allmänintelligens? Kan vi då behålla kontrollen över ...

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A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die. These days, so much of our lives takes place onlinebut what about our afterlives? Thanks to the digital trails that we leave behind, our identities can now b...

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En berusad man söker hjälp med sin bankdosa. En paradis- fågel till 20-någonting har synpunkter på sociala-medier- strategin. En ung pappa litar inte längre på media. En kvinna undrar om Google är farligt. En bibliotekarie skäms över ett obesvarat...

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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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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 innovati...

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Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of million...

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The collapse of modern societies has already begun. That is the conclusion of two years of research by the interdisciplinary team behind Breaking Together. How did it come to this? Because monetary systems caused us to harm each other and nature 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 itsel...

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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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If you want real food, food security and a truly biodiverse countryside, please, please read this book. John Lewis-Stempel, author of Meadowland [A] timely response to those who are constructing a dystopia of farms without farmers, food without fa...

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How do we engage with the threat of social and environmental degradation while creating and maintaining liveable and just worlds? Researchers from diverse backgrounds unpack this question through a series of original and committed contributions to...

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

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Privacy matters because it shields us from possible abuses of power. In the age of AI and the internet it is more important than ever. Carissa Vliz offers a much needed philosophical account of privacy by exploring five basic questions: What is pr...

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'Eye-opening' New Statesman 'Utterly brilliant' Helena Kennedy 'Thought-provoking, challenging and very humane' Michael Wooldridge No longer an uncertain technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence is st...

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Mänskligheten är inne i en ny epok. Sensorer, kameror och drönare med ai-teknologi har förändrat verkligheten vi rör oss i. Den digitala kapitalismen breder ut sig och har gjort vår personlighet till en råvaruresurs. Våra preferenser, intressen oc...

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Digital services, platforms and arrangements are often promoted as smooth and convenient, smart or intelligent. When introduced, devices can appear utterly fascinating or awkward, even disquieting. Eventually, however, they soon disappear in the m...

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Napalm, incendiary gel that sticks to skin and burns to the bone, came into the world on Valentines Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research laboratory. On March 9, 1945, it created an inferno that killed over 87,500 people in Tokyomore than died...

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A Financial Times 'Best Thing I Read This Year' LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of u...

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Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the worlds leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and luc...

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'A lively and dramatic account of greed, corruption, and scandal that will captivate you from start to finish.' FRANK W. ABAGNALE, subject of Catch Me If You Can 'Everything you feared was true about crypto and much worse are laid b...

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