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  • Scary Smart cover art

    • Scary Smart

    • 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: 30-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 355 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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    • Smart Phone Dumb Phone

    • Free Yourself from Digital Addiction
    • By: Allen Carr
    • Narrated by: Jot Davies
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 60 ratings

    • Smart Phone Dumb Phone rewires our relationship to technology. By unravelling the brainwashing process behind our addictive behaviour, we are freed from dependence and can reassert control over our time and productivity....

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    • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

    • The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
    • By: Shoshana Zuboff
    • Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
    • Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 449 ratings

    • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. It offers a reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization....

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    • The Alignment Problem

    • Machine Learning and Human Values
    • By: Brian Christian
    • Narrated by: Brian Christian
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings

    • Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases.

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    • AI Snake Oil

    • What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
    • By: Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
    • Narrated by: Landon Woodson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor reveal what you need to know about AI—and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products.

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    • Backfired: The Vaping Wars

    • By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings

    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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    • The Art of Invisibility

    • The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
    • By: Kevin Mitnick, Robert Vamosi, Mikko Hypponen
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 392 ratings
    • In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick illustrates what is happening without your knowledge - and he teaches you "the art of invisibility"....

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    • Sandy Hook

    • An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
    • By: Elizabeth Williamson
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Elizabeth Williamson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings

    • Sandy Hook is Elizabeth Williamson’s landmark investigation of the aftermath of a school shooting, the work of Sandy Hook parents who fought to defend themselves, and the truth of their children’s fate against the frenzied distortions of online deniers and conspiracy theorists.

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    • Artificial Intelligence

    • A Guide for Thinking Humans
    • By: Melanie Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden, Melanie Mitchell, Tony Wolf
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 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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    • Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

    • 25th Anniversary Edition
    • By: Steven Levy
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
    • Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers - those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks....

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    • Extremely Hardcore

    • Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
    • By: Zoë Schiffer
    • Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • Riveting, character-driven, and filled with jaw-dropping revelations, Extremely Hardcore is the definitive, fly-on-the-wall story of how Elon Musk lit $44 billion on fire and burned down Twitter....

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    • The Future Is Faster Than You Think

    • How Converging Technologies Are Disrupting Business, Industries, and Our Lives
    • By: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
    • Narrated by: Peter H. Diamandis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

    • From the New York Times best-selling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era....

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    • The AI Delusion

    • By: Gary Smith
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • The AI Delusion explains why we should not be intimidated into thinking that computers are infallible, that data-mining is knowledge discovery, and that black boxes should be trusted....

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    • The AI Playbook

    • Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment (Management on the Cutting Edge)
    • By: Eric Siegel
    • Narrated by: Eric Siegel
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • In his bestselling first book, Eric Siegel explained how machine learning works. Now, in The AI Playbook, he shows how to capitalize on it.

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    • Merchants of Doubt

    • How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
    • By: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, Al Gore - foreword
    • Narrated by: Liza Seneca
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • Merchants of Doubt tells, with “brutal clarity” (Huffington Post), the disquieting story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades....

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    • Don't Make It Weird

    • The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Being Human on the Internet
    • By: Colleen Nichols
    • Narrated by: Colleen Nichols
    • Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 23-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • Have you ever actually engaged with someone’s lame dance video on Instagram? Probably not, if you’re being honest. Gimmicks just don’t work, but the pressure of having an online presence can make people do weird things....

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    • The Premonitions Bureau

    • By: Sam Knight
    • Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 195 ratings

    • Premonitions are impossible. But they come true all the time. Most are innocent. You think of a forgotten friend. Out of the blue, they call....

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    • How AI Will Shape Our Future

    • Understand Artificial Intelligence and Stay Ahead. Machine Learning. Generative AI. Robots. Quantum AI. Super Intelligence.
    • By: Pedro Uria-Recio
    • Narrated by: Will Stauff
    • Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings

    • Written in an accessible style for all audiences, “How AI Will Shape Our Future” anchors listeners in the history and evolution of Artificial Intelligence, laying the groundwork for a deeper understanding of its trajectory.

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    • Unmasking AI

    • My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
    • By: Joy Buolamwini
    • Narrated by: Joy Buolamwini
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 31-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • To most of us, it seems like recent developments in artificial intelligence emerged out of nowhere to pose unprecedented threats to humankind. But to Dr. Joy Buolamwini, who has been at the forefront of AI research, this moment has been a long time in the making.

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    • Unbound

    • How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
    • By: Richard L. Currier
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 23-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago....

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