How to think about AI : a guide for the perplexed / Richard Susskind.
2025
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Title
How to think about AI : a guide for the perplexed / Richard Susskind.
Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Copyright
©2025
Description
1 online resource.
Series
Oxford handbooks online.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction
Part One Understanding AI
1 The Summer of AI
2 On Technology
Part Two Thinking Differently
3 Process-Thinking and Outcome-Thinking
4 Confusions
5 We Don't Have the Words
Part Three Making AI Work
6 Automation, Innovation, Elimination
7 Radical Structural Change
Part Four Confronting the Risks
8 Categories of Risk
9 Harnessing AI
Part Five Contemplating the Future
10 Conscious Machines?
11 Coming Soon
12 The Great Schism
Conclusion
Part One Understanding AI
1 The Summer of AI
2 On Technology
Part Two Thinking Differently
3 Process-Thinking and Outcome-Thinking
4 Confusions
5 We Don't Have the Words
Part Three Making AI Work
6 Automation, Innovation, Elimination
7 Radical Structural Change
Part Four Confronting the Risks
8 Categories of Risk
9 Harnessing AI
Part Five Contemplating the Future
10 Conscious Machines?
11 Coming Soon
12 The Great Schism
Conclusion
Summary
How to Think about AI: A Guide for the Perplexed explores the profound impact of artificial intelligence on humanity, addressing both its promises and risks. Beginning with his personal history and decades of experience in AI, Richard Susskind acknowledges the rapid advancements in the field, exemplified by systems like ChatGPT, and the challenges they pose to public debate. The book is structured into five parts, delving into understanding AI, encouraging different ways of thinking, practical applications, addressing risks, and contemplating future possibilities, including the prospect of conscious machines. It stresses the importance of balancing optimism with caution, urging that AI be discussed not only by technologists but by all sectors of society. Lastly, it positions AI as the defining challenge of our age, suggesting it will reshape industries, professions, and even human identity itself.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description
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English
ISBN
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0198941951 electronic book
0198941943 electronic book
9780198941934 electronic book
0198941935 electronic book
9780198941941 (electronic bk.)
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