A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we--the everyday people whose data powers AI--aren't actually in control of anything. When, for example, we speak with Alexa, we contribute that data to a system we can't see and have no input into--one largely free from regulation or oversight. The big nine corporations--Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple--are the new gods of AI and are short-changing our futures to reap immediate financial gain.
In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI--the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself--is broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity.
Much more than a passionate, human-centered call-to-arms, this book delivers a strategy for changing course, and provides a path for liberating us from algorithmic decision-makers and powerful corporations.
一個關於人工智慧破碎本質的號召，以及那些顛覆人機關係的強大企業。
我們喜歡認為自己掌控著「人工」智慧的未來。然而，現實是，我們這些提供數據以驅動人工智慧的普通人，實際上並不掌控任何事情。例如，當我們與 Alexa 交談時，我們將數據貢獻給一個我們看不見且無法參與的系統——這個系統在很大程度上不受監管或監督。這九大企業——亞馬遜 (Amazon)、谷歌 (Google)、臉書 (Facebook)、騰訊 (Tencent)、百度 (Baidu)、阿里巴巴 (Alibaba)、微軟 (Microsoft)、IBM 和蘋果 (Apple)——是人工智慧的新神明，並且為了獲取即時的財務利益而短視地損害了我們的未來。
在這本書中，艾米·韋布 (Amy Webb) 揭示了人工智慧基礎的普遍且隱形的破碎方式——系統中的工作人員、他們的動機以及技術本身。在我們的生命中，人工智慧將因設計而開始以不可預測的方式行為，思考和行動的方式將違反人類的邏輯。這九大企業可能無意中正在構建和啟用大量不共享我們動機、願望或對人類未來希望的智能系統。
這本書不僅僅是一個充滿激情、以人為本的號召，它還提供了一個改變方向的策略，並為我們擺脫算法決策者和強大企業提供了一條道路。
Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist whose research focus is on artificial intelligence and how emerging technologies will transform the way we live, work, and govern. She is the author of
The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream, a professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business, and the founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading future forecasting firm that helps leaders and their organizations prepare for complex futures. Now in its second decade, FTI advises Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, government agencies, large nonprofits, universities and startups around the world. Amy also publishes the annual FTI Emerging Tech Trends Report, which has now garnered more than 6.2 million cumulative views worldwide.
Amy Webb 是一位定量未來學家，她的研究重點在於人工智慧以及新興技術如何改變我們的生活、工作和治理方式。她是書籍 The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream 的作者，並且是紐約大學斯特恩商學院的戰略前瞻教授，以及未來今日研究所（Future Today Institute）的創辦人，這是一家領先的未來預測公司，幫助領導者及其組織為複雜的未來做好準備。未來今日研究所已經進入第二個十年，為全球的《財富》500強和《全球》1000強公司、政府機構、大型非營利組織、大學和初創企業提供建議。Amy 還出版了年度 FTI 新興技術趨勢報告，該報告目前在全球已累積超過 620 萬次的瀏覽量。
