Since the advent of computers, society has fantasized about conversing with machines. In this eye-opening book, technology expert Xiaochang Li shows readers how that dream both fueled the demand for data and set the stage for today’s generative AI.

AI is transforming how we create, access, and make sense of information, and challenging journalism’s longstanding authority. What is happening, why, and with what consequences? This book critically examines what AI means for journalists, audiences, and the future of news.

Somewhere near you, a server farm is being built. The truth is that we have entered a new and ominous age defined by the fact that only a small handful of globally scaled companies can even enter the field of play of this great game.

Among all the chatter from AI evangelists to AI doomsayers, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick has become one of the most visible and provocative AI explainers, zeroing in on the practicalities of how these new tools for thought can change our world.

Will AI rule the world? Did Big Tech scientists create an artificial life form that can think for itself? Is it going to put authors, artists and other people out of business? Are we on the brink of an age in which computers will outperform humans at everything?