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Don't Stop the World

Lilian Suvac

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Artificial intelligence confronts us with an age-old question: what do we do with the power we have? Don't Stop the World looks beyond the fear of technology to human selfishness, choices and responsibility. Across twenty-six chapters, Lilian Suvac connects historical examples, research and ethical reflection, asking who benefits from progress, who bears its risks and who must answer when things go wrong. The book closes with a pact of commitments that readers can question, debate and improve.

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Author's Note Dear Reader, This book began in an unease I share with a great many of my contemporaries: the fear that artificial intelligence could destroy humanity. Along the way I also asked myself whether I was writing about the end of the world to avoid having to write about my own. (I smile.) I have taken the fear seriously — but not in a vacuum. No technology enters a world without a history. It enters the institutions, the conflicts, the solidarities and the blindness of a species that has saved lives and manufactured death, created rights and organised domination, healed ecosystems and pushed them towards dangerous thresholds. The title answers an old cry, and I say so from the start, so that you do not carry it for three hundred pages like a riddle: "Stop the world, I want to get off!" does not ask for the rotation to stop, but for a pause — just long enough for someone to ask who is driving, who is paying for the journey and where it ends up. The pause does not come. The direction, on the other hand, can be changed, and all the rest is about that.
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Author's Note

Dear Reader,

This book began in an unease I share with a great many of my contemporaries: the fear that artificial intelligence could destroy humanity. Along the way I also asked myself whether I was writing about the end of the world to avoid having to write about my own. (I smile.) I have taken the fear seriously — but not in a vacuum. No technology enters a world without a history. It enters the institutions, the conflicts, the solidarities and the blindness of a species that has saved lives and manufactured death, created rights and organised domination, healed ecosystems and pushed them towards dangerous thresholds. The title answers an old cry, and I say so from the start, so that you do not carry it for three hundred pages like a riddle: "Stop the world, I want to get off!" does not ask for the rotation to stop, but for a pause — just long enough for someone to ask who is driving, who is paying for the journey and where it ends up. The pause does not come. The direction, on the other hand, can be changed, and all the rest is about that.

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