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A book-club listing centered on Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia, which examines how artificial intelligence affects people's lives.

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Code Dependent Madhumita Murgia, 2024 311 pages City Library, 3 copies available, County Library, 3 copies available Did you know something like 45 percent of the stock market is in AI? Did you know, relatedly, AI is driving most of our nation's economic growth lately? I'm not sure what all that means, other than a lot of money and investment is pumping through AI. It may mean there's a terrible bubble bubbling. This book is not about that. But, if AI is all of the sudden the economy, the biggest game in town, let's see what AI means on the ground. Publisher's Summary 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.

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