Los nueve gigantes

We like to think that the future depends on ourselves, but the reality is different: Artificial Intelligence is the invisible hand that pulls the strings of our lives. Its potential is unlimited and, placed at the service of a common good, it would allow us to find the solution to the greatest challenges of our century. But what happens when that power rests with a small group of people? Today our destiny is in the hands of nine large companies from the United States and China. On the one hand, Amazon, Google, Apple, IBM, Microsoft and Facebook, who have great ideas about how to solve humanity's greatest challenges, but who obey orders from their shareholders. On the other, the companies Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent whose shares are linked to the Chinese Communist Party. And, in between, us. The external forces that put pressure on these nine tech giants are conspiring to serve their own economic and political interests. The damage caused may be irreversible. More than a shout for insurrection in the face of danger, Amy Webb proposes a concrete strategy to reverse the trend and provides a path to free ourselves from algorithms and rewrite the future of humanity.