Machine Politics

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    • How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America
    • By: David Pakman
    • Narrated by: David Pakman
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 25-03-25
    • Language: English
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    • Popular radio and podcast host David Pakman examines how right-wing extremism has led to the fall of critical thinking and rise of reactionary politics—and what we can do about it to save our democracy.

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    • By: Daniel Ellsberg
    • Narrated by: Steven Cooper
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Mark Coeckelbergh
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention....

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    • The Truth About AI from the People Building It
    • By: Martin Ford
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Find out....

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    • Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
    • By: Kate Crawford
    • Narrated by: Larissa Gallagher
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 21-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • The hidden costs of artificial intelligence - from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom....

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    • The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
    • By: Max Fisher
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • The Chaos Machine is the story of how the world was driven mad by social media....

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    • 5 Battlegrounds
    • By: Rajiv Malhotra
    • Narrated by: Rajat Verman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power argues that the AI-driven revolution will have an unequal impact on different segments of humanity. There will be new winners and losers, new haves and have-nots, resulting in an unprecedented concentration of wealth and power....

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    • How the Science of Acupuncture Explains the Mysteries of Western Medicine
    • By: Daniel Keown
    • Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • A groundbreaking book showing how the theories of Western and Chinese medicine support each other. Full of good stories and surprising details....

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    • By: Nils J. Nilsson
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future....

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    • A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Steven Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat—a tale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map....

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    • When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
    • By: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 16-12-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Imagine a world where the difference between man and machine blurs, where the line between humanity and technology fades, and where the soul and the silicon chip unite. This is not science fiction. This is the twenty-first century according to Ray Kurzweil.

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    • By: Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins - foreword
    • Narrated by: Esther Wane
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation. Susan Blackmore shows that once our ancestors acquired the crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural selection began....

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    • How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing)
    • By: Salman Khan
    • Narrated by: Salman Khan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Salman Khan, the visionary behind Khan Academy, explores how artificial intelligence and GPT technology will transform learning, offering a roadmap for teachers, parents, and students to navigate this exciting (and sometimes intimidating) new world....

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    • A Guide for Thinking Humans
    • By: Melanie Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden, Melanie Mitchell, Tony Wolf
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Interweaving stories about the science and the people behind it, Artificial Intelligence brims with clear-sighted, captivating, and approachable accounts of the most interesting and provocative modern work in AI, flavored with Mitchell’s humor and personal observations....

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    • The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
    • By: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: Christopher Lane
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 19-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In How to Create a Mind, Ray Kurzweil presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in human-machine civilization: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge to create even more intelligent machines.

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    • How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine
    • By: Hannah Fry
    • Narrated by: Hannah Fry
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,220 ratings
    • Welcome to the age of the algorithm, the story of a not-too-distant future where machines rule supreme, making important decisions - in health care, transport, finance, security, what we watch, where we go, even whom we send to prison....

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    • By: Michael Crichton
    • Narrated by: Robert Sean Leonard
    • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 22-07-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong....

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    • Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
    • By: James Bridle
    • Narrated by: James Bridle
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • Recent years have seen rapid advances in 'artificial' intelligence, which increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined....

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    • How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
    • By: Jeanette Winterson
    • Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 29-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Twelve bytes. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love - from Sunday Times best-selling author Jeanette Winterson....

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