num_pages: 336
description: A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head.We like to think that we are in control of the future of artificial intelligence. The reality though is that we -- the everyday people whose data powers AI -- aren't actually in control of anything. When for example we speak with Alexa we contribute that data to a system we can't see and have no input into -- one largely free from regulation or oversight. The big nine corporations -- Amazon Google Facebook Tencent Baidu Alibaba Microsoft IBM and Apple--are the new gods of AI and are short-changing our futures to reap immediate financial gain.In this book Amy Webb reveals the pervasive invisible ways in which the foundations of AI -- the people working on the system their motivations the technology itself -- is broken. Within our lifetimes AI will by design begin to behave unpredictably thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations desires or hopes for the future of humanity.Much more than a passionate human-centered call-to-arms this book delivers a strategy for changing course and provides a path for liberating us from algorithmic decision-makers and powerful corporations.
language: English
title: The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
publisher: PublicAffairs