Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World by Meredith Broussard

Abstract

Broussard, an assistant professor at New York University’s Arthur L Carter Journalism Institute, has written an accessible book on Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) grip on people’s imagination. In twelve short chapters, she lays out a cautionary narrative on the limits of AI and technology in general. Her book joins several other recent volumes that attempt to show the limits of AI and the ethical implications of wholesale and blind adoption of AI to solve the world’s problems. These include M. Tegmark. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, 2018; J. Aoun. Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, 2017; M. Boden. Artificial Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction, 2018; and H. Collins. Artifictional Intelligence: Against Humanity’s Surrender to Computers, 2018.