An expert's guide to taking control of AI, and building a future that works for all

'Timely and much-needed' Carole Cadwalladr 'A wise and purpose-driven book to steer us out of AI doom' Sandi Toksvig We're confused about AI: what it is, and where it's leading us - whether into a utopia or an apocalypse. Yet these obsessions thwart efforts to make meaningful change in an industry with very real problems. Here, Dr Eleanor Drage, one of the world's leading AI ethicists, unpicks the culture and ideas that drive the AI arms race, from billionaires trying to cheat death to biased police algorithms and state capture by big tech. We need new language and new ideas to re-determine what AI is for and how we should use it. Only by bringing feminism, reparative justice and climate politics into the debate can we create a better future with machines.

"Drage is well-placed to argue how AI presents a net positive ... Drage is hopeful that by bringing ethics, feminism, reparative justice, regulation and climate politics to the table and retooling AI to be free from its prejudices and problems, we'll be rid of the creeping sense that it'll do us more harm than good" - ELLE

"We need a whole new language and some fresh ideas to determine what AI is and how we should use it. That translates into adding feminism, reparative justice and climate politics into the debate" - New Scientist

"Stimulating ... Drage, a leading researcher into AI ethics, argues that 'the unfettered pursuit of profit' is what makes AI dangerous ... We all have a stake in this" - Mail on Sunday