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    • Machine Learning and Human Values
    • By: Brian Christian
    • Narrated by: Brian Christian
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 833 ratings
    • Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases.

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    • The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
    • By: Venki Ramakrishnan
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 635 ratings
    • Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Mark Coeckelbergh
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention....

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    • How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
    • By: Andy Clark
    • Narrated by: Andy Clark
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • For as long as we’ve studied human cognition, we’ve believed that our senses give us direct access to the world. What we see is what’s really there—or so the thinking goes. But new discoveries in neuroscience and psychology have turned this assumption on its head....

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    • Paths, Dangers, Strategies
    • By: Nick Bostrom
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,318 ratings
    • Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life....

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    • How Irrationality Created Modern Science
    • By: Michael Strevens
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science....

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    • By: Nils J. Nilsson
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future....

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    • The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
    • By: John Markoff
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • In Machines of Loving Grace, John Markoff offers a sweeping history of the complicated and evolving relationship between humans and computers....

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    • When Humans Transcend Biology
    • By: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 437 ratings
    • For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best....

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    • Right-Wing Media and How it Corrupts Democracy
    • By: David Brock
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-04
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • In The Republican Noise Machine, David Brock skillfully documents perhaps the most important but least understood political development of the last 30 years: how the Republican Right has won political power and hijacked public discourse in the United States....

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    • 50th Anniversary Edition
    • By: Elting E. Morison
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • This book offers an entertaining series of historical accounts taken from the 19th century to highlight a main theme: the nature of technological change, the fission brought about in society....

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    • How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
    • By: Salman Khan
    • Narrated by: Salman Khan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • From the founder of Khan Academy comes the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution in education, its implications for parenting, and how we can best harness its power for good....

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    • How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
    • By: Shannon Vallor
    • Narrated by: Kim Niemi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Shannon Vallor makes a wide-ranging, prophetic, and philosophical case for what AI could be: a way to reclaim our human potential for moral and intellectual growth, rather than lose ourselves in mirrors of the past.

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    • How College Divides Us
    • By: Paul Tough
    • Narrated by: Paul Tough
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • From best-selling author Paul Tough, an indelible and explosive book on the glaring injustices of higher education, including unfair admissions tests, entrenched racial barriers, and crushing student debt. Now updated and expanded for the pandemic era....

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    • The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel
    • By: Paul J. Nahin
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Series: The Science and Fiction Series
    • Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • This audiobook contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel. The emphasis of this book is now on the philosophical and on science fiction, rather than on physics....

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    • By: Max Tegmark
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • We stand at the beginning of a new era. What was once science fiction is fast becoming reality, as AI transforms war, crime, justice, jobs and society....

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    • What Our History with Animals Reveals About Our Future with Robots
    • By: Kate Darling
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • A deeply original analysis of our technological future and the ethical dilemmas that await us, The New Breed explains how the treatment of machines can reveal a new understanding of our own history, our own systems and how we relate - not just to nonhumans but also to each other....

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    • Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
    • By: Cathy O'Neil
    • Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool: When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we reinforce values of fairness and justice. But as Cathy O’Neil argues in this revelatory book, shaming has taken a new and dangerous turn....

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    • Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
    • By: Adrienne Mayor
    • Narrated by: Adrienne Mayor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life - and even invented real automated machines, Gods and Robots is a groundbreaking account of the earliest expressions of the timeless impulse to create artificial life....

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