Meeting The Machine - Cristina DiGiacomo

Your unease about AI is not about the technology.

You are building these systems and cannot sleep. Or you want to go faster and are tired of being told that makes you reckless.

Or you are writing the rules and feel they do not reach far enough. Or you never chose this and are living with it anyway.

There is panic, chest thumping, and an enormous amount of noise.

Is any of it helping?

This book is the quiet answer. Eleven disciplines for what we do to AI and what we do with it. Underneath it all, one question: who do we need to become when we meet the machine? Read it once, and the noise gets quieter. Keep it close, and the next decision gets clearer.

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, asked: "Where are they, the great next philosophers, the equivalents of Kant or Wittgenstein or even Aristotle?"

"How about Aristotle’s spiritual great, great granddaughter, who happens to be the author of this book?" says Tom Morris, who taught philosophy at Notre Dame and wrote If Aristotle Ran General Motors.