Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available.
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It
Humankind is now at the crossroads of perhaps our most unique moment in our short history as a species on Earth. Given enough computing power, data, and time, it is inevitable that at some point in our not-too-distant future, we will succeed in creating a form of artificial intelligence that far surpasses our own. And when that time comes - and it ......
How Technology Will Challenge the Future of Humanity
J. Craig Wheeler, a leading astrophysicist and former president of the American Astronomical Society, argues that we must take charge of our technology now, before we lose the ability to control it, which many estimate will happen around 2040, if not sooner. He reviews today's technology in crucial areas that will have the greatest impact on our ......
How Predictability, Creativity, and the Quantum Mind Will Redefine Life in the Age of AI
Discover how artificial intelligence will challenge everything we believe about consciousness, free will, creativity, and what makes us truly human. In an era when AI will soon predict our breakfast choices, shopping habits, and romantic attractions with uncanny accuracy, quantum physicist Ron Folman poses a provocative question: If we're this ......
Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
In Surrogate Humanity Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots, artificial intelligence, and other technologies serve as surrogates for human workers within a labor system entrenched in racial capitalism and patriarchy. Analyzing myriad technologies, from sex robots and military drones to sharing-economy platforms, ......
How intelligent systems are redefining the human side of health care.
Health care stands on the precipice of extreme transformation. In The Machines Will See You Now, MIT-trained computer scientist and pioneering entrepreneur in digital health Anmol Madan explores how artificial intelligence, automation, and ......
Robots, artificial intelligence, and digital platforms are affecting growth and jobs by creating new tasks, enhancing labor productivity, and displacing workers. To adapt, the region needs to enhance skills, facilitate mobility, remove factor price distortions, and provide social insurance for workers in the new digital ecoomy.
Robots Won't Save Japan addresses the Japanese government's efforts to develop care robots in response to the challenges of an aging population, rising demand for eldercare, and a critical shortage of care workers. Drawing on ethnographic research at key sites of Japanese robot development and implementation, James Wright reveals how such devices ......
