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  • AI Needs You

  • How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own
  • By: Verity Harding
  • Narrated by: Daisy Donovan
  • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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AI Needs You

By: Verity Harding
Narrated by: Daisy Donovan
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This audiobook narrated by Daisy Donovan shares an electrifying vision of how we can safeguard AI’s future for the public good

Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI’s power grows, so does the need to figure out what—and who—this technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is critical for society to take the lead in answering this urgent question and ensuring that AI fulfills its promise.

Verity Harding draws inspiring lessons from the histories of three twentieth-century tech revolutions—the space race, in vitro fertilization, and the internet—to empower each of us to join the conversation about AI and its possible futures. Sharing her perspective as a leading insider in technology and politics, she rejects the dominant narrative, which often likens AI’s advent to that of the atomic bomb. History points the way to an achievable future in which democratically determined values guide AI to be peaceful in its intent; to embrace limitations; serve purpose, not profit; and to be firmly rooted in societal trust.

AI Needs You gives us hope that we, the people, can imbue AI with a deep intentionality that reflects our best values, ideals, and interests, and that serves the public good. AI will permeate our lives in unforeseeable ways, but it is clear that the shape of AI’s future—and of our own—cannot be left only to those building it. It is up to us to guide this technology away from our worst fears toward a future that we can trust and believe in.

©2024 Verity Harding (P)2024 Princeton University Press
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Critic reviews

"An Economist Biggest Book of the Year"

“What is the world that AI is creating? And why are the rest of us letting this world be shaped by a small, privileged group of (mainly) men in Silicon Valley? This book, rooted in deep historical insights about prior technological disruptions, is essential reading for anybody keen to ensure the transformative power of AI is directed to the common good.”—Diane Coyle, author of Cogs and Monsters

“Essential. There’s no one else I’d more want to read on this subject.”—Sathnam Sanghera, author of Stolen History

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