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We Will Soon Be Able to Hack the Human

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In a decade or two, the historian says, a world in which we can be hacked and manipulated like a machine will come. How shall we live if a regime or a borderless company finally knows us better than ourselves and precisely identifies our desires, our fears, our weaknesses? Submission to algorithms sketches an alarming world in which the notions of freedom and free will be radically challenged.

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Lexcellent, C. (2019). We Will Soon Be Able to Hack the Human. In: Artificial Intelligence versus Human Intelligence. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21445-6_9

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