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• Lies That Kill

  a Citizen's Guide to Disinformation

  Kamarck, Elaine C.

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  Disinformation made possible by rapid advances in cheap, digital technology, and promoted by organized networks, thrives in the toxic political environment that exists within the United States and around the world. In Lies that Kill, two noted…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Firehose of Falsehood

  the Story of Disinformation

  Kanefield, Teri, 1960-

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  Lies destroy. Disinformation tears at the fabric of democracy. A Firehose of Falsehood: The Story of Disinformation breaks down disinformation tactics and offers tools for defending and restoring truth.

• The Thinking Machine

  Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip

  Witt, Stephen

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  The Thinking Machine is the story of how Nvidia evolved from providing components for circuit boards to supplying hundred-million dollar supercomputers. It is the story of a determined entrepreneur who defied Wall Street to push his radical vision…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• AI Snake Oil

  What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference

  Narayanan, Arvind

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  Understanding the fundamental differences between AI technologies is critical for a technologically literate public to evaluate how AI is being used all around us. In this book, Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor explain the major strains of AI in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Code Dependent

  Living in the Shadow of AI

  Murgia, Madhumita

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  In Code Dependent, Murgia shows how automated systems are reshaping our lives all over the world, from technology that marks children as future criminals, to an app that is helping to give diagnoses to a remote tribal community. AI has already…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• More Everything Forever

  AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

  Becker, Adam, 1984-

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  A skeptical view of grand predictions. Artificial general intelligence, colonizing Mars, living in a simulation, and immortality are rigorously investigated in this timely and thoughtful book. Becker, an astrophysicist and science journalist, takes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Attack from Within

  How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

  McQuade, Barbara

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  Available in print, eBook, and eAudiobook. In Attack from Within, scholar and MSNBC legal expert Barbara McQuade shows us how to identify the ways disinformation is seeping into all facets of our society and how we can fight against it with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• False

  How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren't True

  Pierre, Joe

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  With a refreshingly unbiased lens, Pierre suggests an antidote to false beliefs and makes the case for softening our convictions, viewing our ideological opponents with compassion, and mending the rifts in our relationships as individuals and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Moral Circle

  Who Matters, What Matters, and Why

  Sebo, Jeff

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  In The Moral Circle, philosopher Jeff Sebo challenges us to include all potentially significant beings in our moral community, with transformative implications for our lives and societies. Available as an eBook and eAudiobook.