Overview
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the modern world. It is ubiquitous--in our homes and offices, in the present and most certainly in the future. Today, we encounter AI as our distant ancestors once encountered fire. If we manage AI well, it will become a force for good, lighting the way to many transformative inventions. If we deploy it thoughtlessly, it will advance beyond our control. If we wield it for destruction, it will fan the flames of a new kind of war, one that holds democracy in the balance. As AI policy experts Ben Buchanan and Andrew Imbrie show in The New Fire, few choices are more urgent--or more fascinating--than how we harness this technology and for what purpose. The new fire has three sparks: data, algorithms, and computing power. These components fuel viral disinformation campaigns, new hacking tools, and military weapons that once seemed like science fiction. To autocrats, AI offers the prospect of centralized control at home and asymmetric advantages in combat. It is easy to assume that democracies, bound by ethical constraints and disjointed in their approach, will be unable to keep up. But such a dystopia is hardly preordained. Combining an incisive understanding of technology with shrewd geopolitical analysis, Buchanan and Imbrie show how AI can work for democracy. With the right approach, technology need not favor tyranny.
Full Product Details
Author: William Andrew Imbrie ,
Benjamin Louis Buchanan ,
Stephen Bel Davies
Publisher: Kalorama
Imprint: Kalorama
Edition: Library Edition
ISBN: 9798212055840
Publication Date: 29 March 2022
Audience:
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Andrew Imbrie is a senior fellow at CSET. He is currently on leave from Georgetown University while serving in the State Department. He is the author of Power on the Precipice. Ben Buchanan is on leave from his professorship at Georgetown University to serve in the Biden-Harris Administration as the assistant director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Previously, he was also a Senior Faculty Fellow and director of the CyberAI Project at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown. He is the author of The Hacker and the State and The Cybersecurity Dilemma. Stephen Bel Davies has recorded over a hundred titles in association with Audible Studios, Deyan Audio, Brilliance, and Tantor. He has narrated books by several New York Times bestselling authors, including Jeffrey Toobin, Jennifer Roberson, Piers Anthony, Walter Kern, J. A. Redmerski, and A. G. Riddle. He was trained at The Juilliard School Drama Division.
