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The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back

Bottom of the pile

11

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

21/100

Critics

1/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Jacob Ward

Publisher:

Hachette Books

Date:

January 25, 2022

An NBC technology correspondent takes readers on a world tour of the ongoing, real-world experiment of artificial intelligence, arguing that dangers lurk when writing human habits into machines.

What The Reviewers Say

Stephen Phillips,
San Francisco Chronicle
The Loop is a strong entry in the canon.
Cathy O'Neil,
The New York Times Book Review
Ward...gives a fascinating survey of the known spectrum of human biases that get in our way of thinking through things, even when we convince ourselves we have.
Gabriel Nicholas,
The Washington Post
More than telling readers anything new about the dangers of technology...The Loop provides evidence that tech criticism itself is calcifying into a mainstream genre.