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Our artificial future : what generative AI means for law and society / David Atkinson
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Atkinson, David (Writer on artificial intelligence), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artificial intelligence--Law and legislation.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026
- Summary:
- "The Generative AI revolution is driven by corporations demanding legal superpowers. If we allow it to continue unchecked, the implications will be profound. This urgent, critical book exposes the unprecedented push by trillion-dollar companies to build AI on billions of unauthorized human works and redefine fundamental areas of law, including copyright, contract, and free speech. Written by an industry insider who turned from AI champion to AI critic, this highly accessible work promotes AI literacy and provides essential tools to pierce the hype. Readers will learn how to assess AI's profound societal risks to democracy and autonomy and ensure that we are the architects of-and not bystanders in-our artificial future"-- Cambridge Core
- Contents:
- Why GenAI is made
- How GenAI is made
- How GenAI is measured
- Web scraping
- The AI race
- GenAIuflecting
- The illusion of democratization
- Automation bias
- Anthropomorphizing
- An introduction to copyright law
- Copyright law and GenAI exceptionalism
- An introduction to the First Amendment
- The First Amendment and GenAI exceptionalism
- Contract law and websites
- Contract law and GenAI exceptionalism
- Licensing for GenAI
- Tort law
- Property, exclusion, and trespass
- The economics of the internet
- Oligopolies
- Environmental impact
- GenAI in education
- Education and democracy
- Human autonomy
- Artificial general intelligence
- Frameworks for thinking about GenAI
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed July 30, 2026)
- Other Format:
- Print version: Atkinson, David (Writer on artificial intelligence) Our artificial future
- ISBN:
- 9781009719605
- 1009719602
- OCLC:
- 1574108575
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000406802
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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