From Eliza Griswold, author of Amity and Prosperity: âIn The Algorithm, Hilke Schellmann has done the impossible: she has rendered the baffling âWild Westâ of AI immensely readable and approachable. Schellmann gives us the dark and hidden history of tech innovation and the marketplace through the stories of those whose lives have been smashed by…
From Karen Levy, author of Data Driven: âThe Ordinal Society will enter the pantheon, both as a work of cross-cutting social theory and as a clear-eyed reflection on the stakes of digital technology. Marshalling an astonishing range of theoretical and empirical knowledge to build their argument, Fourcade and Healy compellingly demonstrate just how integral measurement…
From Mark Lemley, Stanford University: âA delightfully wide-ranging and eminently readable exploration of how laws, norms, technology, and our own thinking guide our behavior, and how we should think about it.â From Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study: âBalancing individual freedoms and the common good is ever more critical in the…
From Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker: âAs artificial intelligence proliferates, more and more hinges on our ability to articulate our own value. We seem to be on the cusp of a world in which workers of all kindsâteachers, doctors, writers, photographers, lawyers, coders, clerks, and moreâwill be replaced with, or to some degree sidelined by,…
From Danah Doyd, author of Itâs Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens: âWhile the cookies at the center of Meg Leta Jonesâs book are not made of sugar, The Character of Consent is a sweet and delicious examination of the politics of data and privacy in our digital world.â From Sarah E. Igo, author…