AI's dystopian future

Both authors go well beyond such cautionary tales and have specific (though different) suggested plans of action to deal with this frightening future

Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech

Lucie Greene
HarperCollins, 288 pages, Rs 699
 
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

Amy Webb
Publicaffairs, 320 pages, Rs 599

Both these books have one mission: They are cautionary tales. They endeavour to caution a thinking person about the dangers that lie ahead as the Information Age dawns. And it’s important to note that neither of them is a left-leaning, anti-capitalist missionary. Lucie Greene works for the international advertising agency J Walter Thompson and Amy Webb teaches at