Jerry Kaplan
Humans Need Not Apply
A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Yale UP, 2015
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This intriguing analysis of the artificial intelligence revolution gives cause for caution.
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Today’s phenomenal acceleration in computing power and machine learning and the breakthroughs in sensor acuity herald an age of artificially intelligent systems and robotic devices. Futurist Jerry Kaplan sees both great promise and grave danger in these technologies. They give people free time for creativity and caring and offer prosperity, safer transport and easier living. Conversely, as its owners profit, machine intelligence threatens jobs and current skill sets. Kaplan envisions a future of legally constituted, asset-holding “artificial persons.” His clear, fast-paced and intriguing report is a cogent heads-up on smart automation. getAbstract recommends his timely evaluation of the gathering storm of synthetic intelligence to entrepreneurs, futurists, business professors and students, CEOs, managers, the self-employed, policy makers and opinion leaders.
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About the Author
Entrepreneur, inventor and futurist Jerry Kaplan, PhD, worked at Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Lab and teaches ethics and the philosophy of artificial intelligence at Stanford. He also wrote the best-selling Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure.
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