Future Tense: How We Made Artificial Intelligenceand How It Will Change Everyth [Hardcover]

Human history has always been shaped by technology, but AI is like no technology that has come before it.

Unlike the wheel, combustion engines, or electricity, AI does the thing that humans do best: think. While AI hasnt reproduced the marvelously complex human brain, it has been able to accomplish astonishing things. AI has defeated our players at games like chess, Go, and Jeopardy!. Its learned to recognize objects and speech. It can create art and music. Its even allowed grieving people to feel as though they were talking with their dead loved ones.

On the flip side, its put innocent people in jail, manipulated the emotions of social media users, and tricked people into believing untrue things.

In this non-fiction book for teens, acclaimed author and teacher Martha Brockenbrough guides readers through the development of this world-changing technology, exploring how AI has touched every corner of our world, including education, healthcare, work, politics, war, international relations, and even romance. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how artificial intelligence got here, how to make the best use of it, and how we can expect it to transform our lives.

Martha Brockenbroughis an award-winning and critically acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction for young readers. She has won many awards and was a finalist for the prestigious Kirkus Prize. Shes a faculty member and faculty co-chair at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and has worked as a journalist, a teacher, and the editor of MSN.com.

Entertaining and accessible. . .A book every young person needs to read.Beste F. Yuksel, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of San Francisco

Clear, engaging, and passionate,Future Tenseis a vital book for the present moment.Our civilization will be reshaped by the AI technologies Brockenbrough describesand it is absolutely necessary that we recognize thelcb