`Index`

Bahns, Angela, 120
Bacon, Francis, 1, 196
Belief in human exceptionalism (bias in assessing progress in artificial intelligence), 6–9, 81, 94–96, 150–151
Bezos, Jeff, 64, 74, 177, 178
Black Mirror (TV series), 111–112, 128
Bostrom, Nick, 5
Brand, Stewart, 18, 68–70
Brynjolfsson, Erik, 30–31, 87, 97, 124–125

Cacioppo, John, 10–11, 118, 194
CanceRx (machine learning approach to cancer), 39–41, 44, 47, 58, 61, 97–98, 101
Chatbot (computer program that converses with humans), 52–56, 124
Chesky, Brian, 147
Childe, V. Gordon, 23–26
Chinese Room Argument (argument due to John Searle), 49–50, 114–115
Climate change, 5, 6–7, 15, 158, 177–178, 185
Collaborative commons (view of the digital economy due to Jeremy Rifkin), 69–70, 155–156, 157–158, 163–165, 173
Crandall, Christian, 120
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, 83–84, 122

Garcia Martinez, Antonio (“a billion times anything is still a big number”), 73, 135
Gigerenzer, Gerd, 36–37
Google, 18, 31, 32, 37, 44, 61, 63–65, 67, 71–72, 73–79, 139, 146, 159, 164, 175, 178–179, 197
Gordon, Robert, 16–17, 26–42, 178
Gray, Kurt, 10

HAL 9000 (malfunctioning homicidal computer in Stanley Kubrick’s movie 2001: A Space Odyssey), 46–47
Hammerbacher, Jeff, 32–33
Hyperactive Agency Detector (a hypothesized evolved bias toward detecting agency), 54–57, 59, 124, 133

Insurance mindset (as a collective response to future uncertainty), 102–107, 191, 191–193

Lanier, Jaron, 18, 67, 73–79, 183
LeFevre, Judith, 83–84, 122
Levesque, Hector, 53, 56, 204
Life-dinner principle, 76–78
Lipson, Hod, 33–34
Loebner Prize, 52–56, 124, 204–205
Long view of technological change (a view of technological change that prioritizes long-term trends), 2–3, 6, 7, 17–18, 23–26, 42, 43–44, 68, 74, 85, 99, 112, 148, 171, 189

McAfee, Andrew, 30–31, 87, 97, 124–125
Machine learning, 4–5, 26, 33–41, 47–49, 51, 65, 81–82, 89, 92–93, 110, 128, 178, 181, 193
Machine learning, 4, 26, 34, 36–41, 47–49, 51, 65, 81–82, 89–93, 110, 128, 178, 181, 193, 204
Merely counterfactual bias (bias against currently non–existent beings), 126–129
Micropayment (small sum of money paid for the use of online content), 18, 73–79, 183
Mind club, 10, 19, 44–57, 106, 109–112, 124–126
Mind work, 4, 9, 17–18, 31, 43–53, 59–60, 61, 81, 89, 90, 94, 100, 106, 132, 165–166, 168–169, 172, 181, 191–192
Mithen, Steve, 24
Mori, Masahiro, 117–118
Morozov, Evgeny, 212, 214
Mukherjee, Siddhartha, 39–40

O-ring production function (as part of an argument for indispensable human contributions), 86–88, 92, 99, 106

Patrick, William, 10–11, 118, 194
Phenomenal consciousness, 16, 112–119
Pickett, Kate, 120
Present bias about digital technologies (bias about progress in artificial intelligence), 6–9, 81, 94–96, 150–151
Pro-human bias (bias in favor of interacting with other humans), 125–129
Protean technology (the steam engine and networked computer as examples), 18, 41, 82, 88–92, 102, 107, 109
Putnam, Robert, 11

Sadowski, Jathan, 165
Schaffer, Amanda, 178
Schneier, Bruce, 78–79
Seabright, Paul, 119–120, 194
Searle, John, 49–50, 114–115
Social economy, 10–14, 98, 108–110, 123–125, 129, 131–153, 155, 159–160, 165, 173, 175–176, 181, 193–194, 196–198
Stallman, Richard Matthew, 69
Star Trek, 8, 45, 125–127
Stepford Wives, The, 112
Stone, Brad, 145–147

Uber, 137, 145–149, 185–189
Uncanny valley (sense of uneasiness about things that are almost human), 117–118
Universal Basic Income (UBI), 14, 20, 121, 156, 163, 165–173, 194–196

Walker, Mark, 171
Wegner, Daniel, 10
Work norm (the idea that it is normal, but not universal, for humans to grow up and find work), 14, 82–84, 92, 99–107, 156, 191–196
Worker platforms (proposed response by workers to platform businesses like Uber), 185–189
Wozniak, Steve, 5–6, 165