Artificial knowing vs The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Artificial knowing Artificial knowing Alison Adam · 1997 ★★★★☆ 3.7 216 pages · ≈ 4 h 00 m · Moderate
“In looking at the way that gender is inscribed in artificial intelligence systems, what resources are available from the literature on feminist theory and practice?”

"In Artificial Knowing, Alison Adam boldly challenges the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world which prescribes the masculine as the norm and excludes other knowers and knowledge, specifically women. Adam…

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Cover of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff · 2018 ★★★★☆ 4.0 704 pages · ≈ 13 h 02 m · Moderate

"Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has always been ahead of her time. Her seminal book In the Age of the Smart Machine foresaw the consequences of a then-unfolding…

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Artificial knowingThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Goodreads 3.6 (16) —
Hardcover — 3.8 (89)
Google Books — 5.0 (1)
Apple Books — 4.5 (59)

Reception

Artificial knowingThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Ratings 16 89
Editions 8 10
Citations 32 —
Film adaptations — 1
Want to read 107 —
Reading it now 5 —
Written reviews 4 —
Wikipedia attention — 3742
Pages 216 704

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