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The New Yorker’s “Briefly Noted” reviewed Gary Marcus’s Taming Silicon Valley: “This polemic, by a cognitive scientist and startup founder, calls for stricter regulation of A.I. His warnings are framed by critiques of A.I. development’s current direction, which has privileged deep learning over potentially more fruitful methods, and of what he argues is the tech industry’s moral decline.”
October books
This month: an insightful exploration of ChatGPT and other advanced AI systems, the inside account of the seven-year negotiation that culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement, a radical approach to solving hunger and poverty in the US, and more.
Staff picks from EKS
To celebrate 100 books in publication, MIT Press staff members have assembled our own favorites from the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series—a much-beloved collection of accessible, concise, beautifully produced books on topics of current interest.
Fall 2024 catalog
The Fall 2024 season features books that reflect our freethinking, ever-evolving culture—books that offer both thoughtful critique and optimistic discussion of the ways humanity can positively engage with technology as it becomes increasingly intertwined with our lives. Like the Press itself, this season’s books push boundaries while honoring the complexity of the world we live in. They are inspired by scientific inquiry, supported by world-leading research, and ultimately driven by the pursuit of intellectual integrity and exploration.
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Radium Age
The MIT Press’s Radium Age is reissuing notable proto–science fiction stories from the underappreciated era between 1900 and 1935. In these forgotten classics, science fiction readers will discover the origins of enduring tropes like robots (berserk or benevolent), tyrannical supermen, dystopian wastelands, sinister telepaths, and eco-catastrophes.
Series editor: Joshua Glenn
The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories by Francis Stevens is the newest book in the series. Francis Stevens, the pseudonym of Gertrude Barrows Bennett, is celebrated as “the woman who invented dark fantasy.” Bennett’s work has anticipated everything from the work of Philip K. Dick to Superman comics to The Hunger Games, making it as relevant now as it ever was.
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Featured book: Off-Earth by Erika Nesvold
In Off-Earth—now available in paperback—Erika Nesvold asks: Can we do better in space than we've done here on Earth?
Thursday October 3, 2024