EAN: 9780316487740

BLOOD IN THE MACHINE - BRIAN MERCHANT GEBUNDEN

"The most important book to read about the AI boom" ( Wired ):   The "gripping" ( New Yorker )
true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains
the power  threat  and toll of big tech and AI today   Named one of the best books of the year
by The New Yorker    Wired  and the  Financial Times •  A Next Big Idea Book Club "Must-Read"
The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in
rural England  when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of
factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods.   The Luddites
organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines—on punishment of death—and won the support of
Lord Byron  enraged the Prince Regent  and inspired the birth of science fiction. This
all-but-forgotten class struggle brought nineteenth-century England to its knees.   Today 
technology imperils millions of jobs  robots are crowding factory floors  and artificial
intelligence will soon pervade every aspect of our economy. How will this change the way we
live? And what can we do about it?   The answers lie in Blood in the Machine . Brian Merchant
intertwines a lucid examination of our current age with the story of the Luddites  showing how
automation changed our world—and is shaping our future.

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