Stuart Jeffries

AI is both liberating and enslaving us

It is becoming more than a useful tool, fears Neil Lawrence. As it takes over most of our work, we grow less and less efficient at doing what remains

A vision of the self-driving car of the future, enabling its passenger to read or watch television while travelling. [Getty Images]

  • The Atomic Human: Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI

    Neil D. Lawrence

    Allen Lane, pp. 448, £25

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