Name: Prophecy. Prediction, Power and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI
SKU: 67222027
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Author: Carissa Veliz
ISBN: 9781800757240

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Prophecy. Prediction, Power and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Swift Press

Autor

Carissa Veliz

Año

2026

N° páginas

384

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Tapa Dura

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23.4x15.3 cm

ISBN13

9781800757240

Prophecy. Prediction, Power and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI

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Today’s computer scientists play the same role as the oracles of the ancient world and the astrologers of the Middle Ages. Modern predictions not only advise on war, crop output, and marriages, but algorithms and statisticians also now determine whether we can get a loan, a job, an apartment, or an organ transplant. And when we cede ground to these predictions, we lose control of our own lives. In this powerful, refreshing new look at the many ways prediction shapes our everyday lives, University of Oxford professor Carissa Véliz explains how putting too much stock in others’ predictions makes us vulnerable to charlatans, con artists, dubious technology, and self-deception. Examining a wide range of subjects both personal and societal, including medicine, climate, technology, society, and others, Véliz uncovers a number of insights: predictions about humans tend to be self-fulfilling; more data doesn’t guarantee better outcomes; AI is more likely to increase risk than decrease it; and a free and robust society requires not more prediction, but better preparation. Véliz argues in this incisive and bracingly original book that the main promise of prediction is not knowledge of the future, but rather power over others. Prophecy is an invitation to defy those orders and live life on our own terms.