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Stop, Drop, and Think: A Futurist’s Plea for Caution in the Age of AI

March 2019 - Legaltech News, New York Law Journal

Publications

Stop, Drop, and Think: A Futurist’s Plea for Caution in the Age of AI

March 2019 - Legaltech News, New York Law Journal

Artificial intelligence (AI) represents the third age of computing development. But, according to Amy Webb, AI’s subtlety makes it insidious. Released in early March, Webb’s book The Big Nine:  How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity raises and attempts to answer the most profound questions posed by AI. Webb warns of a dark future if we fail to reckon with the social, political, and economic changes resulting from AI, as well as China’s determination to establish preeminence in it.

Read the book review by Tod Northman and Elisa Arko here.