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Code Dependent: A must-read exploring the human impact of AI

Madhumita Murgia's new book, which has just made the shortlist for the inaugural Women’s prize for non-fiction, is essential reading for those struggling to reckon with the AI revolution

By Chris Stokel-Walker

3 April 2024

Deliveroo riders demonstrate to push for improved working conditions, in London, Britain, April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Toby Melville - RC2ZQM9TH8B5 — In some sectors, workers are increasingly beholden to algorithmic decision-making
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Code Dependent
Madhumita Murgia (Picador)

THE artificial intelligence revolution has overwhelmed us all since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022. But AI is far more than that, as a new book by Madhumita Murgia, AI editor for the Financial Times, explains.

Murgia has long been fascinated by data, writing a story for tech magazine Wired a decade ago that outlined how eager tech companies are to collect and analyse information about their customers. But in Code Dependent: Living in the shadow of AI, she…