{"id":89342,"date":"2019-04-09T06:42:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-big-nine-how-the-tech-titans-and-their-thinking-machines-could-warp-humanity"},"modified":"2019-04-09T06:42:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:42:32","slug":"the-big-nine-how-the-tech-titans-and-their-thinking-machines-could-warp-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-big-nine-how-the-tech-titans-and-their-thinking-machines-could-warp-humanity","title":{"rendered":"The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-big-nine-how-the-tech-titans-and-their-thinking-machines-could-warp-humanity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New book calls Google, Facebook, Amazon, and six more tech giants \u201cthe new gods of A.I.\u201d who are \u201cshort-changing our futures to reap immediate financial gain\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b><b>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.<\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/b>We like to think that we are in control of the future of \u201cartificial\u201d intelligence. The reality, though, is that we\u2014the everyday people whose data powers AI\u2014aren\u2019t actually in control of anything. When, for example, we speak with Alexa, we contribute that data to a system we can\u2019t see and have no input into\u2014one largely free from regulation or oversight. The big nine corporations\u2014Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple\u2014are the new gods of AI and are short-changing our futures to reap immediate financial gain.<\/p>\n<p>In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI\u2014the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself\u2014is 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\u2019t share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=-9RtDwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New book calls Google, Facebook, Amazon, and six more tech giants \u201cthe new gods of A.I.\u201d who are \u201cshort-changing our futures to reap immediate financial gain\u201d. 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}