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The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs

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“[W]itty and refined . . . Runciman’s point is that the alliance between even a democratic government and a safe-ish A.I. could derail civilization.” —Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker


An eminent political thinker uses our history with states and corporations—“artificial agents” to which we have granted immense power—to predict how AI will remake society.

Countless books, news reports, and opinion pieces have announced the impending arrival of artificial intelligence, with most claiming that it...