Book cover for Our Artificial Future: What Generative AI Means for Law and Society by David Atkinson

Our Artificial Future

What Generative AI Means for Law and Society

2026 Released
338 Pages
5-7 Hours
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Cambridge University PressISBN 9781009719612

The Generative AI revolution is driven by corporations demanding legal superpowers. If we allow it to continue unchecked, the implications will be profound. This urgent, critical book exposes the unprecedented push by trillion-dollar companies to build AI on billions of unauthorized human works and redefine fundamental areas of law, including copyright, contract, and free speech. Written by an industry insider who turned from AI champion to AI critic, this highly accessible work promotes AI literacy and provides essential tools to pierce the hype. Readers will learn how to assess AI's profound societal risks to democracy and autonomy and ensure that we are the architects of-and not bystanders in-our artificial future.

David Atkinson

David Atkinson is a freelance writer with over 20 years of bylines from The Telegraph to BBC History magazine. He is a Green Badge Tourist Guide to his home city of Chester and leads walking tours of the city including his Dark Chester tour. He sits on the content group for the Chester Heritage Festival. He is also Visiting Lecturer at the University of Chester and speaks on dark tourism for national media.

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