Augmented Intelligence

Where the Agricultural Revolution harnessed domesticated animals for pastoral farming, and the Industrial Revolution leveraged machines for factory production, so today the Computational Revolution is advancing computers to augment human intelligence.

"As science fiction becomes fact, Daniel Araya’s collection on augmented intelligence provides readers with an excellent survey of this evolving landscape. Technology has altered human life for centuries, but the current Computational Revolution is changing they way our species thinks—literally and figuratively—about everything. How will human and machine fusion remake our world? These essays explore this important question from fresh, sober, and inspiring perspectives.” — Brave New Math: Information, Globalization, and New Economic Thinking in the 21st Century

"Daniel Araya’s book could not be more timely. Devoid of any utopian or dystopian hype, it provides a level-headed, deep, and critical examination of many of the most cutting-edge questions of our time, as ever “smarter” machines continue to automate many human activities and decisions. From machines' roles in labor and learning to the importance of unique human sensing capabilities and of our physical embodiment of intelligence, and from issues of social justice and human values to the imperative of appropriate governance, Daniel Araya and his contributors have created an important primer, if not in fact a roadmap, for further exploration and policy-making that has yet to find its match among AI books. leans forward to convert these questions into higher value, more focused hypotheses on the potential of intelligence augmentation: the emergence of collective intelligence and more people-centric co-creativity at work; promises and perils of brain emulation and cognitive prosthetics that drive cultural and political shifts; and redefinitions of what it means to be human and to live in societies that will have ever more differentiation of intelligence among us. A potent compendium for anyone concerned with large scale transformations in our world." —