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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power

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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power

By: Rajiv Malhotra
Narrated by: Rajat Verman
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Artificial intelligence is only partially visible, just like an iceberg. To understand it fully, we must look beneath the surface. The positive side is that technology is making machines smarter. However, the deeper view explained in this book shows that AI is also making a growing number of people cognitively and psychologically dependent on digital networks.

Whether you are a social media fanatic, a diehard AI aficionado or a paranoid sceptic, it is impossible to escape the ubiquitous impact of AI. Artificial intelligence is the brains bringing together quantum computing, nanotechnology, medical technology, brain-machine interface, robotics, aerospace, 5G, Internet of Things, and more. It is amplifying human ingenuity and disrupting the foundations of health care, military, entertainment, education, marketing and manufacturing.

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power argues that this AI-driven revolution will have an unequal impact on different segments of humanity. There will be new winners and losers, new haves and have-nots, resulting in an unprecedented concentration of wealth and power.

After analyzing society's vulnerabilities to the impending tsunami, the book raises troubling questions that provoke immediate debate: is the world headed towards digital colonization by the USA and China? Will depopulation become eventually unavoidable?

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power is a wakeup call to action, compelling public intellectuals to be better informed and more engaged. It educates the social segments most at risk and wants them to demand a seat at the table where policies on artificial intelligence are being formulated.

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Social Sciences Technology Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Thought-Provoking Capitalism Robotics Socialism Data Science Human Brain Machine Learning
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Relevant dangers of AI, but only from Indian perspective. Lots of repetition and excessive claims, sources are partly incorrect citrated.

Critical Indian view to use of AI

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This is a poor audiobook and you are strongly encouraged to use your money to buy others. There are other audiobooks on artificial intelligence (AI) that are far better than this audiobook. There are many problems with this audiobook, perhaps too many to list here. The first is that the narrator is not a native English speaker. I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, it's probably more appropriate to use an Indian narrator given that this audiobook is written by an Indian author. It would admittedly be "odd" if the narrator was speaking in the Queen's English. Yet, on the other hand, I feel no quality assurance was done for this audiobook, even considering that this audiobook was narrated by a non-native English speaker. The narrator keeps mispronouncing the word "sovereignty". There are many audiobooks I have listened to here on Audible where the speakers can pronounce foreign words correctly - I listened to one audiobook recently that used a lot of Polish words - so there is no reason why the same standard couldn't be kept with this audiobook. Some of the points made by the author are also inconsistent or weird. For example, the author complains about users being "surveilled" when using a social network. However, surely that is part of the deal, right? Users don't want to pay so social networks monetise on user data and adverts. I don't understand the point being made here? If users find the exchange problematic, the answer is simple: don't join the social network. Towards the end of the audiobook, the narrator just goes off on a tangent on different topics. It should also be noted that this book has less to do with "AI" and more to do with "AI in India". I know that the world is s big place but I feel that this should have been specified in the title, not least because I would imagine most users on Audible are from the Western world (US, UK, Canada, etc). Very poor audiobook in general.

Relatively poor audiobook

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