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Global Catastrophic Risks by Nick Bostrom
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $32.10A global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale. In human history, wars and plagues have done so on more than one occasion, and misguided... -
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
RRP: $16.11Booksplease Price: $12.62The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles... -
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom 9780199678112
RRP: $30.30Booksplease Price: $21.19The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles... -
Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World by Nick Bostrom 9781646871643
Booksplease Price: $42.51Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy Nick Bostrom 9780415883948
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $62.15Anthropic Bias explores how to reason when you suspect that your evidence is biased by "observation selection effects"--that is, evidence that has been filtered by the precondition that there be some... -
Superminds: How Hyperconnectivity is Changing the Way We Solve Problems by Thomas W. Malone
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98Is Apple conscious? Could a cyber-human system sense a potential terrorist attack? Or make diagnosing a rare and little-known disease routine? Computers are not replacing us: they are... -
Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence Jonathan Sacks 9781473616530
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95Despite predictions of continuing secularisation, the twenty-first century has witnessed a surge of religious extremism and violence in the name of God.In this powerful and timely book, Jonathan... -
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Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence by Jonathan Sacks 9781473616530 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.64Despite predictions of continuing secularisation, the twenty-first century has witnessed a surge of religious extremism and violence in the name of God.In this powerful and timely book, Jonathan... -
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'This is the most important conversation of our time, and Tegmark's thought-provoking book will help you join it' Stephen HawkingTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES BOOKS OF... -
The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality and the Race to Save the World by Tom Chivers 9781474608794
Booksplease Price: $26.70'A fascinating and delightfully written book about some very smart people who may not, or may, be about to transform humanity forever' JON RONSON'Beautifully written, and with wonderful humour, this... -
How AI Thinks: How we built it, how it can help us, and how we can control it Nigel Toon 9781804995976
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51THE #2 TIMES BESTSELLER'Artificial intelligence is going to have a massive impact on everyone's lives... an accessible and sensible read that helps demystify AI' Deborah Meaden, entrepreneur and star... -
The Precipice: 'A book that seems made for the present moment' New Yorker by Toby Ord
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20What existential threats does humanity face? And how can we secure our future? 'The Precipice is a powerful book . . . Ord's love for humanity and hope for its future is infectious' Spectator ... -
Eschatology and the Technological Future Michael S. Burdett 9781138053144
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $72.03The rapid advancement of technology has led to an explosion of speculative theories about what the future of humankind may look like. These "technological futurisms" have arisen from significant... -
The Age of AI: And Our Human Future by Henry A Kissinger
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $8.39THE WAY HUMANS NAVIGATE THE WORLD IS ALTERING, FOREVER.THIS IS YOUR ESSENTIAL AI ROADMAP.AI is revolutionizing how we approach security, economics, order and even knowledge itself.It is changing how... -
Transhumanism, Nature, and the Ends of Science by Robert Frodeman
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57This book offers a social, political, and aesthetic critique of transhumanism and of the accelerating growth of scientific knowledge generally. Rather than improving our lives, science and technology... -
Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind by Susan Schneider 9780691216744
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $14.02A guide to AI's thorniest implications that asks: How shall we navigate our brave new world?We are at a monumental turning point in human history. AI is taking intelligence in new directions. The... -
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times by Jonathan Sacks
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95We are living through a period of cultural climate change. We have outsourced morality to the markets on the one hand, and the state on the other. The markets have brought wealth to many, and the... -
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times Jonathan Sacks 9781473617315
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77We are living through a period of cultural climate change. We have outsourced morality to the markets on the one hand, and the state on the other. The markets have brought wealth to many, and the... -
Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind by Susan Schneider 9780691180144
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.99Hailed by the Washington Post as "a sure-footed and witty guide to slippery ethical terrain," a philosophical exploration of AI and the future of the mind that Astronomer Royal Martin Rees calls... -
Philosophy of Mind: The Basics Amy Kind 9781138807815
RRP: $135.45Booksplease Price: $118.10Philosophy of Mind: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to the fundamental philosophical questions and theories about the mind. The author Amy Kind, a leading expert in the field,... -
Philosophy of Mind: The Basics Amy Kind 9781138807822
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $25.72Philosophy of Mind: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to the fundamental philosophical questions and theories about the mind. The author Amy Kind, a leading expert in the field,... -
Dark Aeon: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity by Joe Allen 9781648210105
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.74Humanity is consumed by relentless transformation Like a thief in the night, artificial intelligence has inserted itself into our lives. It makes important decisions for us every day. Often, we... -
Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Roman V. Yampolskiy (University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA) 9780815369820
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $66.94The history of robotics and artificial intelligence in many ways is also the history of humanity's attempts to control such technologies. From the Golem of Prague to the military robots of modernity,... -
The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics by Melinda Hall 9781498533508
Booksplease Price: $49.55In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human enhancement, philosopher Melinda Hall tackles the claim that the expansion and development of human capacities is a moral obligation... -
Calamity Theory: Three Critiques of Existential Risk by Joshua Schuster
RRP: $11.61Booksplease Price: $10.47What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse? A new philosophical field has emerged. "Existential risk" studies any real or hypothetical human extinction event in the near or distant... -
The Weirdness of the World by Eric Schwitzgebel
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $30.22How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarre-and why that's a good thingDo we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe... -
But What If We're Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman 9781445663388
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.54This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already... -
Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it by Martin Ford 9781789954531
Booksplease Price: $41.69Book DescriptionHow 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... -
The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us by Adam Kirsch
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15Should we welcome the end of humanity? In this blistering book about the history of an idea, one of our leading critics draws on his dazzling range and calls our attention to a seemingly... -
Ethics and Emerging Technologies by Ronald Sandler 9780230367036
RRP: $116.09Booksplease Price: $88.15First and only undergraduate textbook that addresses the social and ethical issues associated with a wide array of emerging technologies, including genetic modification, human enhancement,... -
Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it by Martin Ford 9781789131512
Booksplease Price: $25.79Financial Times Best Books of the Year 2018TechRepublic Top Books Every Techie Should ReadBook DescriptionHow will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on... -
Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach Roman V. Yampolskiy (University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA) 9781482234435
RRP: $49.01Booksplease Price: $46.80A day does not go by without a news article reporting some amazing breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI). Many philosophers, futurists, and AI researchers have conjectured that human-level AI... -
Experiments in Ethics Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780674034570
RRP: $27.03Booksplease Price: $23.30In the past few decades, scientists of human nature-including experimental and cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary theorists, and behavioral economists-have explored the way we...