From the book description: âHow will the law change to accommodate the role of artificial intelligence in society and how much of that change has occurred already? When machines make their own decisions with financial impact, who receives credit or blame? This new guide provides an in-depth examination of how artificial intelligence has evolved, how…
From the Wall Street Journal: âIn âConfidential Confidential,â law professor Samantha Barbas recounts the inside story of the âlittle magazine that couldâ with drama, humor, and verveâŠMs. Barbas paces her terrific story well, and the book ends with her cogent analysis of Confidentialâs larger significance.â
From Shoshana Zuboff (Harvard Business School): âThe store is a battleground for new contests over privacy and individual autonomy. This fact-filled book performs a genuine public service and should put every shopper on high alert.â
From Kevin Werbach (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania): âAnyone interested in the future of business should read this fascinating book as soon as possible. By now it is conventional wisdomâthanks in no small part to Mayer-Schönbergerâs previous bookâthat big data will transform the way firms operate. Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data…
From Arthur Molella (Smithsonian Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation): âThis masterly study challenges naĂŻve assumptions that characterize our twenty-first-century world of electronic hyperefficiency. Computers, big data, and artificial intelligence are too often allowed to supersede human judgment and indeed undermine our very self-confidence as human beings. Yet no electronic machine can…
From Times Higher Education: âIllustrated with examples from Broussardâs own work and experience, this is an intensely personal journey that gives a real sense of travelling with a friend. Her descriptions of hackathons and other aspects of start-up culture are honest and atmospheric, capturing the social as well as the technical aspects of the marketplace…
From Susan Athey (Stanford University): âPrediction Machines is a path-breaking book that focuses on what strategists and managers really need to know about the AI revolution. Taking a grounded, realistic perspective on the technology, the book uses principles of economics and strategy to understand how firms, industries, and management will be transformed by AI.â
From Henry Giroux (McMaster University): âStartling and brilliant⊠As Eubanks makes crystal clear, automation coupled with the new technologies of ethical abandonment and instrumental efficiency threaten not only the lives of millions who are viewed as disposable but also democracy itself. If you want to understand how this digital nightmare is reaching deep into the…
From the Financial Times: âSchneier skillfully guides readers through serious attacks that have happened alreadyâand moves on to those he believes are just over the horizonâŠ. Schneier sets out detailed solutions that should be required reading for politicians across the world.â
From Rebecca Tushnet (Harvard Law School): âJennifer Rothman has written an important, informative study of the right of publicity as it has developed in the United States and its connections to a robust privacy right. By reexamining the past, she has elaborated principles that will be useful in defining both publicity and privacy rights for…