The Line
AI and the Future of Personhood
$56.38
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
7 January 2025
Summary
How AI will challenge our ideas about personhood.
A “terrific” exploration of AI in our chatbot-obsessed era—and how it will challenge our ideas about personhood (New Yorker).
Chatbots like ChatGPT have challenged human exceptionalism: we are no longer the only beings capable of generating language and ideas fluently. But is ChatGPT conscious? Or is it merely engaging in sophisticated mimicry? And what happens in the future if the claims to consciousness are more credible?
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262049160 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262049163 |
| Author: | James Boyle |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm |
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Critics Review
“[A] thoughtful and compelling book.”
—3 Quarks Daily
“Cogent and well-argued, The Line raises questions of moral philosophy that artificial entities will surely force society to confront.”
– New York Review of Books
“Terrific.”
– New Yorker
About The Author
James Boyle
James Boyle is the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School, the founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, and former Chair of Creative Commons. He is the author of The Public Domain and Shamans, Software and Spleens, the coauthor of two comic books, and the winner of the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award for his work on digital civil liberties.
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