Code Dependent: How AI Is Changing Our Lives

★《Esquire》、《The Spectator》、《Publishers Weekly》年度最佳圖書
★入圍2024年英國女性非小說獎

想成為AI的主人，先了解AI底層的真相

自從ChatGPT等功能強大的AI工具上市，人人都成為通才，
無論醫學診斷、刑事司法、社會福利、貸款申請或藝術創作，
似乎人人都能用AI提升做事效率、甚至讓AI做決策。
企業家與投資人還聲稱AI最後能解決人類的所有問題。

只是AI工具真的完美無缺嗎？本書作者穆吉亞探索AI的實際影響，
驚覺AI已悄然滲透進日常生活，而它最深層的面貌，並沒有那麼亮麗：

．AI演算法的背後，是用數百萬人類進行標記
．狹隘的資料集導致演算法有偏見
．設計不夠嚴謹造成社會不公
．權力集中在少數幾間大公司手裡
．法律尚未跟上AI發展的腳步

穆吉亞強調，無腦依賴AI工具不是好事，
我們應該了解AI的機制，積極參與相關法律的制定。
只有讓AI的發展更加透明與包容，真正以人為本，
我們才能成為AI的主人，用AI打造美好的未來。

(中文書介摘自遠見天下文化《AI底層真相: 如何避免數位滲透的陰影》)

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
Named a best book of the year by Esquire, The Spectator and Publishers Weekly

A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, revealing the perils and inequities of our growing reliance on automated decision-making

On the surface, a British poet, an UberEats courier in Pittsburgh, an Indian doctor, and a Chinese activist in exile have nothing in common. But they are in fact linked by a profound common experience―unexpected encounters with artificial intelligence. In Code Dependent, Murgia shows how automated systems are reshaping our lives all over the world, from technology that marks children as future criminals, to an app that is helping to give diagnoses to a remote tribal community.

AI has already infiltrated our day-to-day, through language-generating chatbots like ChatGPT and social media. But it’s also affecting us in more insidious ways. It touches everything from our interpersonal relationships, to our kids’ education, work, finances, public services, and even our human rights.

By highlighting the voices of ordinary people in places far removed from the cozy enclave of Silicon Valley, Code Dependent explores the impact of a set of powerful, flawed, and often-exploitative technologies on individuals, communities, and our wider society. Murgia exposes how AI can strip away our collective and individual sense of agency, and shatter our illusion of free will.

The ways in which algorithms and their effects are governed over the coming years will profoundly impact us all. Yet we can’t agree on a common path forward. We cannot decide what preferences and morals we want to encode in these entities―or what controls we may want to impose on them. And thus, we are collectively relinquishing our moral authority to machines.

In Code Dependent, Murgia not only sheds light on this chilling phenomenon, but also charts a path of resistance. AI is already changing what it means to be human, in ways large and small, and Murgia reveals what could happen if we fail to reclaim our humanity.