How to Stay Smart in a Smart World

"This is a masterful weaving of different facets of artificial intelligence that manages to cover some extremely complex topics in a way that non-specialists can readily understand. It is also highly readable — Gigerenzer is such a good writer, and his examples are very compelling. I think it is an essential read because it provides an important perspective on AI for all those who are tired of being bombarded by hype and exaggerated claims, and for those who are rightfully worried about the dangers to society that are posed by AI."

Gary Klein, Ph.D., author of Sources of Power: How people make decisions, and CEO of ShadowBox LLC

“In clear, unencumbered, and unpretentious prose, Gigerenzer demystifies the logic of our 'smart' societies. And despite cataloguing many depressing examples of the ambitions of big tech, the overall message of the book—and indeed the author's view of human nature—is empowering.”

John Zerilli, University of Oxford, co-author of A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence (MIT Press)

“Gerd Gigerenzer is the most original and coherent follower of the bounded rationality tradition of Herbert Simon in economics and decision making. This inspiring book dispels many myths about the predictive power of connectionist AI, describes its failures to tackle uncertain and unstable phenomena, and relaunches the simulationist psychological approach as the best way towards an ethical and Human AI.”

Riccardo Viale, Full Professor in Behavioral Sciences and Cognitive Economics, University of Milano Bicocca and Secretary General of Herbert Simon Society

“Gigerenzer's book is comforting as it explicitly makes the case that the machines of the future will not be able to do everything better than humans. Don't trust smart technology unconditionally, he warns readers, but he also counsels that there's no need to fear it either.”

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