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  • Published: 18 May 2021
  • ISBN: 9780262044813
  • Imprint: MIT Press Academic
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 232
  • RRP: $100.00

A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence





A concise but informative overview of AI ethics and policy.

A concise but informative overview of AI ethics and policy.

Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has generated a staggering amount of hype in the past several years. Is it the game-changer it's been cracked up to be? If so, how is it changing the game? How is it likely to affect us as customers, tenants, aspiring home-owners, students, educators, patients, clients, prison inmates, members of ethnic and sexual minorities, voters in liberal democracies? This book offers a concise overview of moral, political, legal and economic implications of AI. It covers the basics of AI's latest permutation, machine learning, and considers issues including transparency, bias, liability, privacy, and regulation.

  • Published: 18 May 2021
  • ISBN: 9780262044813
  • Imprint: MIT Press Academic
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 232
  • RRP: $100.00

Praise for A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence

"The topic is critically important and one that will one grow in importance over the coming years. The role that algorithms, artificial intelligence, deep learning, and the like in public decision-making is going to be *THE* topic of consideration for public policy and public administration in years to come." -- Evan S. Michelson, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

"Equipped to answer the wide range of questions from law, computer science, policy, and ethics... accessible to a general audience. -- Aidan Elise Kestigian