Richard AudetteOn books, just finished 'Nexus' by Yuval Noah Harari: https://www.ynharari.com/book/nexus/
I generally expect AI will be similar to other innovations - self driving cars will be like self driving elevators, LLMs like the Internet. This was maybe the first book that made me think, "hmm, maybe this is different".
A neat term I hadn't seen elsewhere: "data colonialism" - the exertion of control through holding and processing other's data. A different take on data residency and sovereignty.
'NEXUS' – A new book from Yuval Noah Harari (out September 2024)
'NEXUS: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI' (published Sept 2024) is a non-fiction book by Yuval Noah Harari. In this thrilling new work, the historian and bestselling author looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has made, and unmade, our world. Harari explores how different societies and political systems have wielded information to achieve their goals and impose order, for good and bad – and he addresses the urgent choices we face today, as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence.