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Global Catastrophic Risks by Nick Bostrom
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €29.61A 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: €14.86Booksplease Price: €11.64The 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: €27.95Booksplease Price: €19.55The 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... -
Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy Nick Bostrom 9780415883948
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €57.33Anthropic 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21Is 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.02Despite 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €2.44Despite 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'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: €24.63'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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70THE #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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02What 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: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.45The 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02THE 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: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27This 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: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.65A 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02We 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: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.31We 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: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.29Hailed 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: €124.95Booksplease Price: €108.94Philosophy 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: €24.98Booksplease Price: €23.73Philosophy 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: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.98Humanity 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: €65.44Booksplease Price: €61.75The 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: €45.71In 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: €10.71Booksplease Price: €9.66What 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: €33.32Booksplease Price: €27.88How 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: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.18This 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: €38.46Book 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: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.28Should 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: €107.09Booksplease Price: €81.31First 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: €23.79Financial 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: €45.21Booksplease Price: €43.17A 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: €24.93Booksplease Price: €21.49In the past few decades, scientists of human nature-including experimental and cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary theorists, and behavioral economists-have explored the way we...