The Storm of Progress: Climate Change, AI, and the Roots of Our Dangerous Ethical Myopia - Tapa blanda

Rowland, Wade

 
9781773901497: The Storm of Progress: Climate Change, AI, and the Roots of Our Dangerous Ethical Myopia

Sinopsis

We need to ask: what kind of 'progress' leads to the destruction of humanity's basic habitat, even its basic identity?

In a time of existential threats from climate change, computer-based superintelligences, AI-accelerated nuclear and biological warfare and more, we can no longer avoid some profound questions about what's going on. We need to ask: what kind of 'progress' leads to the destruction of humanity's basic habitat, even its basic identity?

"Timely. Necessary. Urgent. Wade Rowland asks which will ultimately predominate--our Humanity or the Machine?"--Jeffrey Dvorkin

Literary Nonfiction. Essay.

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Acerca del autor

Wade Rowland is emeritus professor of media and communication studies at York University, Toronto. Among more than a dozen previous books are: Greed, Inc.: Why Corporations Rule Our World and How We Let It Happen; Galileo's Mistake; and Canada Lives Here: The Case for Public Broadcasting (LLP 2016). He lives with his artist wife Christine Collie Rowland in rural Port Hope, in the Northumberland hills of Eastern Ontario.

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In a time of existential threats from climate change, computer-based superintelligences, AI-accelerated nuclear and biological warfare and more, we can no longer avoid some profound questions about what's going on. We need to ask: what kind of 'progress' leads to the destruction of humanity's basic habitat, even its basic identity?

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