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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    • 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 31 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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    • 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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    • The World of AI-Powered Creativity
    • By: Arthur I. Miller
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 21-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Today's computers are composing music that sounds "more Bach than Bach", turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night, and even writing screenplays. But are computers truly creative - or are they merely tools? Find out more....

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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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    • 50th Anniversary Edition
    • By: Elting E. Morison
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This book offers an entertaining series of historical accounts taken from the 19th century to highlight a main theme: the nature of technological change, the fission brought about in society....

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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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    • 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 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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    • 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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    • 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 25 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: 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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    • 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 1,218 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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    • 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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    • How Cocaine Took Over The World
    • By: Tom Feiling
    • Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • In The Candy Machine, Tom Feiling travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston and Tijuana to London and New York....

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    • Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
    • By: Frank Pasquale
    • Narrated by: Perry Daniels
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • AI is poised to disrupt our work and our lives. We can harness these technologies rather than fall captive to them - but only through wise regulation....

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    • How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives
    • By: Philip N. Howard
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Lie Machines is full of riveting behind-the-scenes stories from the world's biggest and most damagingly successful misinformation initiatives - including those used in Brexit and US elections....

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    • Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
    • By: Paul R. Daugherty, H. James Wilson
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Look around you. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a futuristic notion. It's here right now - in software that senses what we need, supply chains that "think" in real time....

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