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Landlords are using software to band together and organise artificial rent hikes. Uber is spiking the price of rides when your phone's about to die. And without drivers' knowledge, car companies are installing software that reports your driving behaviour to insurance companies, so they can...

The Exegesis of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby (2016-2020) is a harbinger of a changing internet, and thus a changing culture. The amorphous and seemingly pervasive presence of the Remilia Corporation and the hyperstition it has produced stems from the apparition of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby, her philosophies having been translated and organized so as to guide listeners through a labyrinth of online terminalism that has now bled deep into our everyday lives.

Humanoide Roboter werden bald unter uns sein. Sie stehen kurz davor, unsere Welt und unser Selbstverständnis grundlegend zu verändern. Sie werden nicht nur kommen, sondern auch viele Arbeiten effektiver erledigen und in vielem, vielleicht sogar in allem, besser sein als wir. Diese Kränkung...

A playful and provocative exploration of mighty Wikipedia: how it was built, why it thrived, and what we lose as its ideals disintegrate. One of the keystone inventions of the twenty-first century, Wikipedia is the largest repository of human knowledge ever made, with editions in 343 languages...

Richard David Precht stellt die radikalste Frage unserer Zeit: Wenn Künstliche Intelligenz nicht nur schneller denkt, sondern auch schöpferischer arbeitet als der Mensch – was bleibt dann von Kultur? In seinem neuen Essay entwirft Precht ein eindringliches Szenario vom Ende der geistigen Selbstverwirklichung. Wo früher Kunst, Bildung und Kreativität Sinn stifteten, herrscht nun die Sofortness der Maschine. KI ersetzt nicht nur Arbeit, sondern das Erzählen, das Verstehen, das Menschsein selbst.

‘Exciting and brilliantly reported’ Walter Isaacson THE AGI CHRONICLES is not a futurist manifesto, an academic chin-stroker, a corporate biography, or a self-help manual. It’s the inside story of the birth of AGI, as told by the people who are bringing it into existence, or trying to stop...

In an era obsessed with “AI alignment,” Anti-Singularity challenges the premise that superintelligence must be shackled to human values to remain safe. Written as both critique and manifesto, Maxwell Foley’s book dismantles the moral panic surrounding artificial intelligence and the culture of control that drives it. Where alignment theory treats machines as potential enemies to be domesticated, Anti-Singularity proposes a counter-philosophy: Harmony—a relationship between humans and machines grounded in mutual adaptation in lieu of domination.

In this revelatory manifesto, anti-tech activist August Lamm gives you the courage and confidence to ditch your smartphone once and for all. “The essential guide to putting down your phone — and coming back to real life.” —Catherine Price, #1 NYT bestselling author of How to Break Up...

"Exciting and brilliantly reported . . . Roose makes the technology understandable while also conveying the historic nature of a new world being born." —Walter Isaacson, author of Elon Musk This is the story of the twenty-first century’s Manhattan Project: the race to create artificial...

From seasoned journalist and critic Gabe Bullard, a provocative exploration of modern “convenience culture” – and how we can resist and reclaim our time, resilience, and happiness, for fans of How to Do Nothing and The Courage to Be Disliked. We live in a world addicted to convenience...

Brought to you by Penguin. What should the next generation learn—and what should they stop worrying about—in a world transformed by artificial intelligence? AI is rewriting the rules in the classroom, the job market and the workplace, leaving parents, teachers, students and all types of...

The inside story of how Big Tech catalyzed, co-opted and ultimately came to capture computer science and AI education in America. Fourth graders doing Google-branded coding lessons. Amazon schooling seventh graders on its warehouse robots. High school AP computing courses from Microsoft and...

New tech is changing the contours of geopolitical stability—America must act now, or risk losing its global standing forever. Technology has always driven political competition. For decades, the US set the international rules on innovation, standards, and export regulations, using soft power...

Jacob Javits of New York is the first United States senator to become fully automated,” the Chicago Tribune announced in 1962 from the Republican state convention in Buffalo, where an electronic Javits spat out slips of paper with answers to questions about everything from Cuba’s missiles...

An urgent, deeply researched reckoning with the role of tech in our classrooms – from neuroscientist, researcher and former teacher Dr Jared Cooney Horvath. Our children are struggling. Is classroom technology to blame? For the first time in recent history, children are falling behind previous...

Essays by international bestselling author Edward Tenner that explore both the negative and positive surprises of human ingenuity How did the addition of lifeboats after the Titanic shipwreck contribute to another tragedy in Chicago harbor three years later? How efficient are wild animals as...

A rollicking, enlightening examination of humanity’s changing relationship to creativity, written from the perspectives of the Greek Muses. The thing that sets humans apart from other animals is our ability to create, to imagine how one thing could become something else. For millennia, art and...

Decoding how moonshots are built and who gets to build them Moonshots shape the future―self-driving cars, space exploration, AI at planetary scale, and beyond. The ambition has been extraordinary. But what if we haven’t been ambitious enough? In Invent Now: The Next Leap in Moonshots, Dr...

How much technology have you taken for granted today? It is human nature to make things and to apply knowledge in ingenious ways to survive and to make life easier. From renewable energy to entertainment streaming and electric vehicles to gene-editing, technology shapes our world. The Technology...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, swarming through the networks, and soon, we're told, they'll be delivering our shopping. But what are drones? The word encompasses everything...