我们喜欢认为人类掌控着“人工智能”的未来。然而，事实是，我们——为“人工智能”提供动力的凡人——实际上并没有掌控任何事物。例如，当我们与Alexa说话时，我们将这些数据献给了一个我们看不到并且没有输入的系统——一个基本上没有监管和监督的系统。亚马逊、谷歌、Facebook、腾讯、百度、阿里巴巴、微软、IBM和苹果九大公司都是人工智能的新主宰，正在克扣我们的未来以获得即时的经济收益。

在这本书中，Amy Webb揭示“人工智能”的基础——操纵这个系统的人、他们的动机、这项技术本身——被打破的普遍和无形的方式。在我们有生之年，“人工智能”将通过设计开始做出不可预测的行为，以违背人类逻辑的方式思考和行动。这九家大公司可能将在无意中建立并启用大量和我们的动机、愿望和对人类未来的希望不一致的智能系统。

本书不仅仅是一个充满激情、以人类为中心的战斗召唤，它还给出了改变路线的策略，并提供了一条将我们从算法决策者和大公司解放出来的途径。

We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we--the everyday people whose data powers AI--aren't actually in control of anything. When, for example, we speak with Alexa, we contribute that data to a system we can't see and have no input into--one largely free from regulation or oversight. The big nine corporations--Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple--are the new gods of AI and are short-changing our futures to reap immediate financial gain.

In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI--the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself--are broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity.

Much more than a passionate, human-centered call-to-

arms, this book delivers a strategy for changing course, and provides a path for liberating us from algorithmic decision-makers and powerful corporations.