博客來金融時報首位AI專題編輯的深入調查
★入圍女性非小說獎（Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction）決選名單
提到AI人工智慧，您會想到什麼？ChatGPT聊天機器人、Siri語音助手、社交媒體會推算用戶喜好投放個人化廣告？事實上，AI已廣泛滲透到我們的日常生活中，以更加隱蔽、難以覺察的方式，重塑我們的生活──包含我們的人際關係、孩子的教育、個人的工作與財務狀況，更牽動國家的政治和經濟，甚至危及人權。
本書作者瑪杜米塔‧穆吉亞（Madhumita Murgia）是英國金融時報首位AI專題編輯，過去十年來她走遍世界各地，拜訪相關領域的新創公司、產業巨頭和技術專家，掌握最新資訊。在《程式碼依賴》（Code Dependent）這本新書中，作者透過人們生活中的故事，把人工智慧的影響，清晰地呈現在讀者眼前。
人類若遲遲不能對AI的監管機制達成共識、及時採取必要行動，在未來幾年，人工智慧的自動決策不僅會影響許多人的生計，還可能加深社會的不平等，觸犯倫理和隱私問題，淪為犯罪工具，對人類的生活帶來巨大的風險。
每個人都需要關心AI人工智慧的議題，因為它已是我們生活的一部分，享受科技的同時，對於這些危機，無人能置身事外。(文/博客來編譯)
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, revealing the perils and inequities of our growing reliance on automated decision-making
On the surface, a British poet, an UberEats courier in Pittsburgh, an Indian doctor, and a Chinese activist in exile have nothing in common. But they are in fact linked by a profound common experience--unexpected encounters with artificial intelligence. In Code Dependent, Murgia shows how automated systems are reshaping our lives all over the world, from technology that marks children as future criminals, to an app that is helping to give diagnoses to a remote tribal community.
AI has already infiltrated our day-to-day, through language-generating chatbots like ChatGPT and social media. But it’s also affecting us in more insidious ways. It touches everything from our interpersonal relationships, to our kids’ education, work, finances, public services, and even our human rights.
By highlighting the voices of ordinary people in places far removed from the cozy enclave of Silicon Valley, Code Dependent explores the impact of a set of powerful, flawed, and often-exploitative technologies on individuals, communities, and our wider society. Murgia exposes how AI can strip away our collective and individual sense of agency, and shatter our illusion of free will.
The ways in which algorithms and their effects are governed over the coming years will profoundly impact us all. Yet we can’t agree on a common path forward. We cannot decide what preferences and morals we want to encode in these entities--or what controls we may want to impose on them. And thus, we are collectively relinquishing our moral authority to machines.
In Code Dependent, Murgia not only sheds light on this chilling phenomenon, but also charts a path of resistance. AI is already changing what it means to be human, in ways large and small, and Murgia reveals what could happen if we fail to reclaim our humanity.
