In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms

by Helga Nowotny

Book Overview

One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI - and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions and for what it means to be human. AI changes our experience of time and the future and challenges our identities, yet we are blinded by its efficiency and fail to understand how it affects us.

At the heart of our trust in AI lies a paradox: we leverage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509548815
• ISBN13: 9781509548811
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"