Etik: vetenskaplig & teknisk utveckling

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S TOP BOOKS OF THE YEAR Shortlisted for The Orwell Prize 2020 Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year Award 2019 'Easily the most i...

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Det här är en fascinerande guide till alla utmaningar och val i vår strävan efter en fantastisk framtid för liv, intelligens och medvetande på jorden och långt ut i rymden. Elon Musk, grundare av SpaceX och Tesla Motors Alla bör fråga sig vad vi n...

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Artificiell intelligens finns överallt omkring oss idag. Maskiner tänker och agerar på alltmer sofistikerade sätt och lär sig samtidigt, på maskiners sätt, att varje dag förbättra sina prestationer. I takt med att samhället blir alltmer datafierat...

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Hur kommer AI-utvecklingen att påverka dig, dina vänner och din familj? Hur kommer den att påverka ditt yrkesliv? Och vad innebär den för vårt demokratiska samhälle? Den tekniska utvecklingen kring AI gå...

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I Kriget mot livet tar journalisten Per Shapiro oss med på en fascinerande upptäcktsfärd till en uråldrig visdomstradition. Där hittar han en unik förståelse av Jordens ursprung och en ¿möj¿lig väg ut ur den högteknologiska dystopi vi har hamnat i...

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AI håller på att revolutionera vår värld och hur vi lever våra liv. Den snabba utvecklingen innebär både möjligheter och risker. Vad händer om vi lyckas skapa en maskin som övertrumfar mänsklig allmänintelligens? Kan vi då behålla kontrollen över ...

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species beyond recognition. The best person I know at predicting the future of AI BILL GATES 'Essential reading to understand our exp...

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'After reading Mitchells guide, youll know what you dont know and what other people dont know, even though they claim to know it. And thats invaluable'' The New York Times A leading computer scientist brings human sense to the AI bu...

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A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die. These days, so much of our lives takes place onlinebut what about our afterlives? Thanks to the digital trails that we leave behind, our identities can now b...

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BEKVÄM SLÅR RÄDD. Digitaliseringen skulle bli en demokratisk guldålder. Men vi var inte redo. I stället offrade vi det mesta som gör oss till självständiga individer för att få ha det bekvämt. I dag kontrollerar en handfull techjättar allt från vå...

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*A WATERSTONES 'BEST POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'* *A TIMES 'BEST PHILOSOPHY AND IDEAS' BOOK OF 2021* *A GUARDIAN 'BEST POLITICS BOOKS OF THE YEAR'* LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BUSINESS BOOK AWARD 'A brilliant manifes...

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Today, human exceptionalism is the norm. Despite occasional nods to animal welfare, we prioritise humanity, often neglecting the welfare of a vast number of beings. As a result, we use hundreds of billions of vertebrates and trillions of invertebr...

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Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of million...

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** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ** The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies. The story begins in an Augustinian abbey in 1856, and takes the reader ...

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The early promise of a free Internet is long gone. Now, rather than allowing us a meaningful relationship with a range of content of our choosing, algorithms have not only removed genuine choice but de-texturized the world around us: smoothed its ...

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The collapse of modern societies has already begun. That is the conclusion of two years of research by the interdisciplinary team behind Breaking Together. How did it come to this? Because monetary systems caused us to harm each other and nature t...

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Financial expert, investment advisor and New York Times bestselling author James Rickards shows how generative AI is reshaping the world of finance, explaining what smart investors can do to protect their assets. AI-powered programmes like ChatGPT...

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that cant be fixed. Instead of helping to address our current crises, AI causes divisions that limit peoples life chances, and even suggests fascistic solutions to...

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Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of million...

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In September 2021, the Wall Street Journal released the Facebook Files - a huge cache of information looking at the immoral practices of Facebook - how they treated politicians favorably, how they incited violence in Ethiopia, and much more. The p...

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Madison Grant is largely forgotten today, but in the early 20th century, he was a leading environmentalist.  He spearheaded the effort to save America's buffalo and majestic redwood trees.  He might be considered a lion of progressivism ...

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En berusad man söker hjälp med sin bankdosa. En paradis- fågel till 20-någonting har synpunkter på sociala-medier- strategin. En ung pappa litar inte längre på media. En kvinna undrar om Google är farligt. En bibliotekarie skäms över ett obesvarat...

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The new international bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The World is Flat - this is an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the twenty-first century.'As a guide for perplexed Westerners, this book is very har...

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Jennifer Doudna, the world-famous scientist behind CRISPR, `one of the most monumental discoveries in biology' (New York Times), explains its discovery, describes its power to reshape the future of all life and warns of its use. 'Urgent, riveting ...

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We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what we can do? How did we become people who effortlessly present our lives in social media profiles and ...

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In this fascinating follow-up to the bestselling Information is Beautiful and Knowledge is Beautiful, the king of infographics David McCandless uses spectacular visuals to give us all a bit of good news. We are living in the Information Age, in wh...

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Big Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In this brilliant survey of global tech economy, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni argue that the role of firms like Amazon and Google, Palantir and Ube...

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*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD*Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of a book.'Nothing delights me more than a well-written and well-researched book that...

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In the eighteen years since Ivan Illichs death, David Cayley has been reflecting on the meaning of his friend and teachers life and work. Now, in Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey, he presents Illichs body of thought, locating it in its own tim...

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'A lively and dramatic account of greed, corruption, and scandal that will captivate you from start to finish.' FRANK W. ABAGNALE, subject of Catch Me If You Can 'Everything you feared was true about crypto and much worse are laid b...

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