# A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control by Wendell Wallach #AI #ethics --- Related - [[Book - Weapons of Math Destruction - Cathy O'Neil]] --- - My takeaway, there are many new technologies being developed by private or public funding that are disruptive and have vast societal impact, but we don't talk about them. - Talk to who about this? - A pretty dry read for me, but i guess it made me think of longer term impacts of technologies. ---- # 1 Navigating the Future - Techstorm, it was actually more apparent during the industrial revolution. Crowded slum, child labours were among the prominent harmful features of the industrial revolution's techstorm. - When many new technologies appear, what society impact does it bring? - Cumulative impact of converging tech, force us to keep up. *Author said that people should speak out, and decide if technologies should be allowed. But how?! i feel he's abit optimistic.. or maybe i am pessimistic. * # 2 A Prediction **3**The C Words **4**The Pace of Change **5**Trade-offs **6**Engineering Organisms **7**Mastery of the Human Genome # 8 Transcending Limits - **9**Cyborgs and _Techno Sapiens_ **10**Pathologizing Human Nature **11**Drivers of the Storm **12**Terminating the Terminator **13**Engineering for Responsibility **14**Tools for Governance **15**Guild Navigators