WINNER: Choice Reviews - Outstanding Academic Title, 2025
WINNER: Goody Business Book Award 2024 - Technology - General
AI promises to transform our world, supercharging productivity and driving new innovations. Taming the Machine uncovers how you can responsibly harness the power of AI with confidence.
AI has the potential to become a personal assistant, a creative partner, an editor and a research tool all at once. But it also represents a threat to your livelihood, data and privacy. Taming the Machine offers the practical insights and knowledge you need to work with AI with an ethical and responsible approach.
In this book, celebrated AI expert and ethicist Nell Watson offers practical insights on how you can ethically innovate with AI. It delves into the ethical issues of unbridled AI, highlighting the challenges that it will bring to society and business unless we fortify cybersecurity, safeguard our data, and understand the dangerous potential of artificial intelligence.
Step into the future and supercharge your performance safely by Taming the Machine.
- 336 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 History and roadmap of AI
- 2 AI’s promise and peril
- 3 Robots and avatars
- 4 Coordinating chaos and complexity
- 5 Science and innovation
- 6 Responsible AI governance
- 7 Transparency and explainability
- 8 Breaking down biases
- 9 Ethical accountability
- 10 Preserving privacy
- 11 Fairness and franchise
- 12 Security and robustness
- 13 Taskmasters
- 14 Virtual learning
- 15 Synthetic media
- 16 Brain-computer interfaces
- 17 Sirens and muses
- 18 Battle for the mind
- 19 Humanity’s problem child
- 20 Value alignment
- 21 Corporate egregores
- 22 The double-edged sword of regulation
- 23 Sympathy for the machine
- 24 Humanizing machines
- 25 Sustainable wellbeing
- 26 AGI futures
- 27 Thoughts made manifest
- Glossary
- Postscript
- Index
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