The Silicon Shrink
How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum
$48.37
- Hardcover
264 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2025
Summary
Why the race to apply AI in psychiatry is so dangerous, and how to understand the new tech-driven psychiatric paradigm.
AI psychiatrists promise to detect mental disorders with superhuman accuracy, provide affordable therapy for those who can’t afford or can’t access treatment, and even invent new psychiatric drugs. But the hype obscures an unnerving reality. In The Silicon Shrink, Daniel Oberhaus tells the inside story of how the quest to use AI in psychiatry has created the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262049351 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026204935X |
| Author: | Daniel Oberhaus |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“An eye-opening exposé of how machines are replacing people in a sphere they probably shouldn’t be.”
—Kirkus Reviews
About The Author
Daniel Oberhaus
Daniel Oberhaus is a science writer based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the founder of the deep tech communications agency HAUS and was previously a staff writer at WIRED. His first book, Extraterrestrial Languages (MIT Press), is about the art, science, and philosophy of interstellar communication.
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