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category: Philosophy
published: Jan 2024
ISBN:9781773901497
publisher: Linda Leith Publishing

The Storm of Progress

Climate Change, AI, and the Roots of Our Dangerous Ethical Myopia

by Wade Rowland

tagged: intelligence (ai) & semantics, political freedom, ethics & moral philosophy
Description

In a time of existential threats from climate change, computer-based superintelligences, AI-accelerated nuclear and biological warfare and more, we can no longer avoid some profound questions about what's going on.
Why is it that what we've been taught to celebrate as progress, as modern history's greatest social and technical achievements, are now threatening our very existence?
Author Wade Rowland writes that the worst of these global crises are the fruits of a basic error made by well-intentioned Enlightenment thinkers at the dawn of the scientific revolution: a misunderstanding of the essence of humanity. In assuming the worst about human nature and fashioning a civilization based on those false assumptions, some of early modern philosophy's most revered thinkers set us on a dangerous path.
Rowland argues that by better understanding human nature in the light of current scientific and philosophical knowledge, we can better—and we can do better.
Because we have what it takes—because we are good.

About the Author
Wade Rowland

Wade Rowland is emeritus professor of media and communication studies at York University, Toronto. Among more than a dozen previous books are: Greed, Inc.: Why Corporations Rule Our World and How We Let It Happen; Galileo's Mistake; and Canada Lives Here: The Case for Public Broadcasting (LLP 2016). He lives with his artist wife Christine Collie Rowland in rural Port Hope, in the Northumberland hills of Eastern Ontario.

Editorial Review

"Timely. Necessary. Urgent. Wade Rowland asks which will ultimately predominate - our Humanity or the Machine?" —Jeffrey Dvorkin.

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