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Author Runciman, David, author.

Title The handover : how we gave control of our lives to corporations, states, and AIs / David Runciman.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
©2023

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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - New Materials  128 RUNCIMAN    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - New Materials  128 RUNCIMAN    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description 328 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm
Note First published in Great Britain in 2023 by Profile Books Ltd.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-309) and index.
Summary An eminent political thinker uses our history with states and corporations--"artificial agents" to which we have granted immense power--to predict how AI will remake society.
Contents Introduction. States, corporations, robots -- Superagents -- Groupthink -- A matter of life and death -- Tribes, churches, empires -- The great transformation -- You didn't build that -- Beyond the State -- Who works for whom? -- Conclusion. The second singularity.
Subject Agent (Philosophy)
Corporations -- Social aspects.
State, The -- Social aspects.
Politics, Practical.
Artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects.
Technology and civilization -- Forecasting.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
ISBN 9781631496943 (hardcover)
1631496948 (hardcover)
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