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 in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we--the everyday people whose data powers AI--aren't actually in control of anything. When, for example, we speak with Alexa, we contribute that data to a system we can't see and have no input into--one largely free from regulation or oversight. The big nine corporations--Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple--are the new gods of AI and are short-changing our futures to reap immediate financial gain.

In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI--the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself--is 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't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity.

Much more than a passionate, human-centered call-to-arms, this book delivers a strategy for changing course, and provides a path for liberating us from algorithmic decision-makers and powerful corporations.

关于人工智能的破碎性质的呼吁，以及那些正在颠覆人机关系的强大公司。

我们喜欢认为，我们在控制 "人工 "智能的未来。但现实是，我们--那些用数据为人工智能提供动力的普通人--实际上并没有控制什么。例如，当我们与Alexa交谈时，我们将数据贡献给了一个我们看不到的系统，而且没有任何投入--一个基本上不受监管或监督的系统。九大公司--亚马逊、谷歌、脸书、腾讯、百度、阿里巴巴、微软、IBM和苹果--是人工智能的新神，正在缩短我们的未来以获得即时的经济利益。

在这本书中，艾米-韦伯揭示了人工智能的基础--从事该系统工作的人、他们的动机、技术本身--普遍存在的、不可见的方式。在我们的有生之年，人工智能在设计上将开始表现得不可预测，以违背人类逻辑的方式思考和行动。九大公司可能无意中建造并启用了大量的智能系统，而这些系统并不认同我们的动机、欲望或对人类未来的希望。

这本书不仅仅是一个热情洋溢、以人为本的呼吁，还提供了一个改变方向的战略，并提供了一条将我们从算法决策者和强大的公司中解放出来的道路。