Machine Politics

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    • How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America
    • By: David Pakman
    • Narrated by: David Pakman
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 25-03-2025
    • Language: English
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    • Popular radio and podcast host David Pakman examines how right-wing extremism has led to the fall of critical thinking and rise of reactionary politics—and what we can do about it to save our democracy.

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    • By: Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins - foreword
    • Narrated by: Esther Wane
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation. Susan Blackmore shows that once our ancestors acquired the crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural selection began....

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    • The Truth About AI from the People Building It
    • By: Martin Ford
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Find out....

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    • By: Richard Seymour
    • Narrated by: Adam Bromley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In artist Paul Klee’s The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for our relationship with social media....

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    • Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
    • By: Kate Crawford
    • Narrated by: Larissa Gallagher
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 21-12-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The hidden costs of artificial intelligence - from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom....

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    • A.I., Power and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
    • By: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar
    • Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind Mustafa Suleyman urgently warns of the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologies poses to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance....

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    • How Irrationality Created Modern Science
    • By: Michael Strevens
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Mark Coeckelbergh
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention....

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    • War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI
    • By: Ben Buchanan, Andrew Imbrie
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 29-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the modern world. It is ubiquitous-in our homes and offices, in the present and most certainly in the future. Today, we encounter AI as our distant ancestors once encountered fire....

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    • The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
    • By: Max Fisher
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The Chaos Machine is the story of how the world was driven mad by social media....

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    • By: Nils J. Nilsson
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future....

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    • How the Science of Acupuncture Explains the Mysteries of Western Medicine
    • By: Daniel Keown
    • Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • A groundbreaking book showing how the theories of Western and Chinese medicine support each other. Full of good stories and surprising details....

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    • 5 Battlegrounds
    • By: Rajiv Malhotra
    • Narrated by: Rajat Verman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-2023
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power argues that the AI-driven revolution will have an unequal impact on different segments of humanity. There will be new winners and losers, new haves and have-nots, resulting in an unprecedented concentration of wealth and power....

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    • Paths, Dangers, Strategies
    • By: Nick Bostrom
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 231 ratings
    • Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life....

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    • The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
    • By: Mo Gawdat
    • Narrated by: Mo Gawdat
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 30-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Scary Smart is an insider look at the future not only of technology and AI, but of our species, together with an accessible blueprint for what we can do to safeguard ourselves, those we love and the planet itself....

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    • A Guide for Thinking Humans
    • By: Melanie Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden, Melanie Mitchell, Tony Wolf
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Interweaving stories about the science and the people behind it, Artificial Intelligence brims with clear-sighted, captivating, and approachable accounts of the most interesting and provocative modern work in AI, flavored with Mitchell’s humor and personal observations....

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    • By: Daniel Ellsberg
    • Narrated by: Steven Cooper
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization....

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    • How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing)
    • By: Salman Khan
    • Narrated by: Salman Khan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Salman Khan, the visionary behind Khan Academy, explores how artificial intelligence and GPT technology will transform learning, offering a roadmap for teachers, parents, and students to navigate this exciting (and sometimes intimidating) new world....

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    • When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
    • By: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 16-12-1999
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Imagine a world where the difference between man and machine blurs, where the line between humanity and technology fades, and where the soul and the silicon chip unite. This is not science fiction. This is the twenty-first century according to Ray Kurzweil.

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    • A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Steven Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-2024
    • Language: English
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    • A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat—a tale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map....

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