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Back to topHuman Touch: 'AI is soulless', they said. What if it turned out nobody cared? (Paperback)
(This book cannot be returned.)
Description
Elizabeth lives every day thinking that twenty years ago, she could've prevented AI from upending society. But her lack of experience, and a messy affair, sent her spiralling out of government and into seclusion.
Her ex-husband Mike now works at HumanTouch, the last firm in London doing graphic design by hand. He rolls his eyes at anti-automation protests, but worries his favourite shows and his online romances are both being written by algorithms.
Across town, Gemma sleepwalks through life as a music industry executive, a bottle in one hand and hook-up apps in another, her fiftieth birthday just around the corner. Few care for artisanal music anymore, fewer still could afford it.
With unemployment punishable by exile to a work camp, and the threat of losing their livelihoods ever-growing, Elizabeth, Mike and Gemma each struggle to find their own way back to something that resembles happiness-or even just humanity.