num_pages: 315
description: This eye-opening narrative journey into the rapidly changing world of artificial intelligence reveals the dangerous ways AI is exploiting the unconscious habits of our mindsand the real threat it poses to humanity.The best book I have ever read about AI. -Roger McNamee New York Times bestselling author of Zucked Artificial intelligence is going to change the world as we know it. But the real danger isn't some robot that's going to enslave It's our own brain. Our brains are constantly making decisions using shortcuts biases and hidden processesand we're using those same techniques to create technology that makes choices for us. In The Loop  award-winning science journalist Jacob Ward reveals how we are poised to build all of our worst instincts into our AIs creating a narrow loop where each generation has fewer predetermined and even dangerous choices.Taking us on a world tour of the ongoing real-world experiment of artificial intelligence The Loop illuminates the dangers of writing dangerous human habits into our machines. From a biometric surveillance state in India that tracks the movements of over a billion people to a social media control system in China that punishes deviant friendships to the risky multiple-choice simplicity of automated military action Ward travels the world speaking with top experts confronting the perils of their research. Each stop reveals how the most obvious patterns in our behaviorpatterns an algorithm will use to make decisions about what's best for usare not the ones we want to perpetuate.Just as politics marketing and finance have all exploited the weaknesses of our human programming artificial intelligence is poised to use the patterns of our lives to manipulate us. The Loop is call to look at ourselves more clearlyour most creative ideas our most destructive impulses the ways we help and hurt one another-so we can put only the best parts of ourselves into the thinking machines we create.
language: English
title: The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
publisher: Hachette Books