Heartificial Intelligence
Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines

I wanted to like his book. I applaud Havens’s efforts to avoid the polarizing narratives dominate the way we cover our technological anxieties; it’s what I’ve been arguing in my research on Constructive Technology Criticism over the last year. We agree on the set of sociotechnical circumstances that......more

I wrote the book so I'm not objective. But I am really proud of it. The fictional vignettes opening each chapter was a risk to write for me. Typically I write non-fiction but I strongly felt a reporting style for these subjects wasn't enough to project how complex and nuanced the issues around Artif......more

I will start by saying that there are many important issues involved in the development of AI that this book does not address, including the ethical issues of their use in war and crime, but that is largely because of the author's relentless optimism about humanity and the fact that it is not really......more

A good guide to an important subject, suitable for anyone. John Havens writes with a light touch, but he is not afraid to tackle the serious issues here -- What will automation and data-mining do to society and humanity, and how might we respond? The book has a nicely balanced structure, with a pess......more

Heartificial Inteligence explores thorny political, economic and ethical issues raised by the rapidly approaching reality of Strong AI (or Singularity or last invention or whatever you want to call it) We already realize that AI may replace us as workers. The scarier thought is whether it will surpas......more