The Illusion of the Future: How Humans Coexist with AI/by Helga Nowotny

**"If you start to believe that algorithms can predict the future, you may lose the future."** **In the era of AI,** **How to maintain the meaning of being a human being?** **We are in a fascinating moment,** **On a trajectory of interactive evolution between humans and AI.** **Every step of development in digital technology,** **They all make us rethink what it means to be human.** We have begun to think that AI understands ourselves better than we do. Prediction algorithms will make suggestions for the items we will consume, future behaviors, and emotional states. We may even domesticate ourselves to conform to the predictions of AI. When we think we can completely control the future with AI, the opposite is actually true. In this book, Austrian sociologist Nowotny continues her research on the relationship between technology and society, the experience and uncertainty of social time, and explores the role of AI in the Digital Anthropocene from the perspectives of philosophy, history, sociology, and science. How to reshape our identity and how to live with AI. **Algorithms are so powerful that we easily forget the important relationship between "understanding" and "prediction". However, we must not succumb to the convenience of efficiency, we must not give up the desire to understand, and we must not abandon the curiosity and perseverance behind it.** On the road to cultural evolution, people have been using science and technology to accelerate progress. However, in the face of increasingly complex human crises, such as climate change, public health, politics, and social inequality, Nowotny advocates using the values of digital humanism as the starting point for designing algorithms and AI systems, rather than simply Quantitative data. The discussion in this book adopts an interdisciplinary approach: technology and science, history, sociology, philosophy, etc. It is an excellent book not only for technical people, but also for any general readers who want to explore how artificial intelligence affects human experience. An inspiring read. **——Jin Guoqing, Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong** In this wise and important book, Helga. Novotny describes how the uncertainty of our current situation is obscured by the excitement of digital technology; how incomplete forecasts can easily morph into policy; and how moral indecision is often euphemistically referred to as efficiency. . The human spirit and mechanical tools will co-evolve in the future. Facing such an open future, this book provides us with an important reference. **——David. David Krakauer, Director of the Santa Fe Institute** Author: Helga. Helga Nowotny Translator: Yao Yiping ISBN: 9789882372597 Binding: Hardcover Language: Traditional Chinese Number of pages: 228 Dimensions: 216 x 142 x 21mm **About the author** **Helga. Helga Nowotny**Social scientist. Former President of the European Research Council (2010-2013), Emeritus Professor at ETH Zurich. She is dedicated to research on the sociology of science and technology (the co-evolution of science and society). In 2003, she was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize by the Association for the Study of Science and Society (4S) for her lifelong contributions to scientific research; in 2017, she received the Presidential Award of the British National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her role in establishing the European Research Council and Committed to advancing European scientific research contributions. His major works include__Time: The Modern and Postmodern Experience__(Polity Press, 1996; "Time: The Modern and Postmodern Experience", Beijing Normal University Press, 2011),__Re-Thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty__(Polity Press, 2001),__An Orderly Mess__(Central European University Press, 2017),__The Cunning of Uncertainty__(Polity Press, 2017),__In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms__(Polity Press, 2021) etc. **Translator profile** **Yao Yiping**is a Taiwanese and has translated more than 40 volumes.