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Q. It strikes me that so far, from beginning with a dystopian novel, you’ve chosen a series of books which describe a dystopian present. It’s almost as if you’re a pessimist or a cynic about digital technology. Does anybody ever write books that are positive and say, ‘Wow, this is amazing. Here are all the things we can do’?
Carissa Véliz: Yes, all the time. We hear a lot of positives, such as in books like The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos.
Carissa Véliz, Five Books interview on digital ethics, November 30th, 2022
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Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
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