How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms - Softcover

Gigerenzer, Gerd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141995041 ISBN 13: 9780141995045

Publisher: Penguin, 2023

Synopsis

'Enlightening, impassioned, powerful' The Times

From dating apps and self-driving cars to facial recognition and the justice system, the increasing presence of AI has been widely championed - but there are limitations and risks too. In this book Gigerenzer shows how humans are often the greatest source of uncertainty and when people are involved, unwavering trust in complex algorithms can become a recipe for disaster. We need, now more than ever, to arm ourselves with knowledge that will help us make better decisions in a digital age.

Filled with practical examples and cutting-edge research, How to Stay Smart in a Smart World examines the growing role of AI at all levels of daily life with refreshing clarity. This book is a life raft in a sea of information and an urgent invitation to actively shape the world in which we want to live.

'Masterful ... an essential read' Gary Klein, author of Sources of Power

'One of the world's most eminent psychologists' Spectator

About this title

About the Author

Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Harding Centre for Risk Literacy at the University of Potsdam and partner of Simply Rational: The Institute for Decisions. He is former Director of the Centre for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and a former Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books on heuristics and decision-making, including Risk Savvy and Reckoning with Risk.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141995041
• ISBN 13: 9780141995045
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320