In Our Own Image: Savior or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence Audiobook

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• “Zarkadakis interweaves sci-fi visions with explorations of the philosophy, technology, and deep history of artificial superintelligence.”

  — Financial Times (London)

• “A fantastic journey into the cultural origins of artificial intelligence, in philosophy, neuroscience, and the history of computing.”

  — Le Temps (Geneva)

• “George Zarkadakis knows AI. Unlike a lot of the people writing and thinking about it, he has real cultural breadth, too.”

  — Aeon

• “Zarkadakis passionately, yet carefully, leads readers chronologically through the development of key concepts in the understanding of mind and intelligence…By the conclusion of this highly accessible work, Zarkadakis convincingly posits a future in which ‘post-humanism will have morphed into trans-humanism,’ showing how a romance with AI will present humans with a daunting dilemma.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Advances in computers have made artificial intelligence a new hot topic for most observers—but not science writer and futurist Zarkadakis, who maintains that it is an ancient human obsession…A delightfully lucid combination of the history, philosophy, and science behind thinking machines.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “Zarkadakis is an exciting and original thinker in the field of artificial intelligence and has written a book that is timely and important.”

  — Jim Al-Khalili, PhD, OBE, author of Paradox

• “A mindful and historical look at the hope, hype, and reality of artificial consciousness.”

  — Stuart Hameroff, coauthor of Consciousness and the Universe