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    Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
    Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
    Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
    Audiobook9 hours

    Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

    Written by Madhumita Murgia

    Narrated by Madhumita Murgia

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    About this audiobook

    This program is read by the author and includes a bonus interview with the author.

    “Engaging and entertaining, this work is essential listening for anyone following the potentially explosive development of AI.” —AudioFile

    Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction

    A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, revealing the perils and inequities of our growing reliance on automated decision-making

    On the surface, a British poet, an UberEats courier in Pittsburgh, an Indian doctor, and a Chinese activist in exile have nothing in common. But they are in fact linked by a profound common experience—unexpected encounters with artificial intelligence. In Code Dependent, Murgia shows how automated systems are reshaping our lives all over the world, from technology that marks children as future criminals, to an app that is helping to give diagnoses to a remote tribal community.

    AI has already infiltrated our day-to-day, through language-generating chatbots like ChatGPT and social media. But it’s also affecting us in more insidious ways. It touches everything from our interpersonal relationships, to our kids’ education, work, finances, public services, and even our human rights.

    By highlighting the voices of ordinary people in places far removed from the cozy enclave of Silicon Valley, Code Dependent explores the impact of a set of powerful, flawed, and often-exploitative technologies on individuals, communities, and our wider society. Murgia exposes how AI can strip away our collective and individual sense of agency, and shatter our illusion of free will.

    The ways in which algorithms and their effects are governed over the coming years will profoundly impact us all. Yet we can’t agree on a common path forward. We cannot decide what preferences and morals we want to encode in these entities—or what controls we may want to impose on them. And thus, we are collectively relinquishing our moral authority to machines.

    In Code Dependent, Murgia not only sheds light on this chilling phenomenon, but also charts a path of resistance. AI is already changing what it means to be human, in ways large and small, and Murgia reveals what could happen if we fail to reclaim our humanity.

    A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

    Editor's Note

    AI demise…

    Murgia, an editor for the Financial Times, has been researching and reporting on AI for decades, beginning long before ChatGPT made headlines. “Code Dependent” reveals her sobering findings, with global examples of how AI compromises everything from our livelihoods and privacy to our very humanity. The message is clear: AI, despite the promises of its creators, has the power to perpetuate the very worst in us.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateJun 18, 2024
    ISBN9781250339003
    Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
    Author

    Madhumita Murgia

    Madhumita Murgia is an award-winning Indian-British journalist and commentator, who writes about the impact of technology and science on society. She is currently AI Editor at the Financial Times in London, where she leads global coverage of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. She has spent the past decade travelling the world from Silicon Valley to Seoul, writing about the people, start-ups and corporations shaping cutting edge technologies, for publications including WIRED, the Washington Post, Newsweek and the Telegraph. She appears frequently on national radio and TV in the UK, including the BBC’s flagship Today program and Sky News. Her TEDx Talk, about her personal data being sold by data brokers has been viewed by nearly 200,000 people online. Madhu lives in London, but her heart remains in her hometown, Mumbai.

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