The Power of Robots. How to Prepare for the Inevitable

Artificial intelligence (AI) has already firmly entered our lives, but Martin Ford argues that the real revolution is still ahead. In this book, he outlines his vision of the future of AI. On the one hand, this technology appears to him as a powerful publicly available resource, something like the new electric current, which will ultimately transform almost all areas of the economy, social life, and culture. On the other hand, AI poses real dangers both to individuals and to society as a whole. It makes possible the emergence of deepfakes that can plunge society into chaos, generates unprecedented mechanisms of social control, and can be completely biased. Such technology cannot be accepted blindly and thoughtlessly, and this book is intended to help humanity prepare for the future — to accurately understand what is happening, separate sensation from reality, and find optimal ways to ensure the prosperity of each of us and of society as a whole.