{"product_id":"the-love-makers-isbn-9781912685844","title":"The Love Makers","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow artificial intelligence and robotics are transforming the future of love and desire: a philosophical thriller and essays.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA chance encounter between two women and a road trip into the future: It's Christmas Eve, and Scarlett, banker-turned-technologist, is leaving a secret underground lab to catch the last flight that will get her home in time to open presents with her three-year-old son. She offers a lift to a young woman in distress, who shares her intimate life story as they drive to the airport. These revelations will have devastating consequences for both of them.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Love Makers\u003c\/i\u003e is a philosophical thriller about female friendship, class, motherhood, women, and work--and how artificial intelligence and robotics are transforming the future of love and desire. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAifric Campbell combines her novel with essays from leading scientists and commentators who examine what's at stake in our human-machine relationships. What is our future as friends, parents, lovers? Will advances in intelligent machines reverse decades of progress for women? From robot nannies to generative art and our ancient dreams of intelligent machines, \u003ci\u003eThe Love Makers\u003c\/i\u003e blends storytelling with science communication to investigate the challenges and opportunities of emergent technologies and how we want to live.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRonny Bogani, Joanna J. Bryson, Julie Carpenter, Stephen Cave, Anita Chandran, Peter R. N. Childs, Kate Devlin, Kanta Dihal, Mary Flanagan, Margaret Rhee, Amanda Sharkey, Roberto Trotta, E. R. Truitt, and Richard Watson\"Wild, innovative and alive with intelligence and imagination, Aifric Campbell's novel is a dark Thelma and Louise road-trip for the AI generation.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Arifa Akbar, chief theater critic at \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eConsumed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Keenly intelligent and deeply humane, The Love Makers is an essential handbook on the ways in which Artificial Intelligence has already changed the relationships between human beings, and will only continue to do so. The novel, Scarlett and Gurl, is a brilliant exploration of all the subtle ways in which AI will challenge our understanding of motherhood, friendship, and romantic love; combined with the accompanying essays and poems, it paints a vivid picture of a future that is both startlingly different and uncannily familiar, and demands that we pay closer attention to the way we treat each other now.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Louisa Hall, author of \u003ci\u003eTrinity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSpeak\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAifric Campbell is the author three novels: \u003ci\u003eOn the Floor\u003c\/i\u003e, longlisted for the International Orange Prize 2012 (now the Women's Prize for Fiction), \u003ci\u003eThe Loss Adjustor\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Semantics of Murder\u003c\/i\u003e. She spent fourteen years as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley where she became the first woman managing director on the London trading floor. Her journalism has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eSunday Business Post\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches at Imperial College London.","brand":"Goldsmiths Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304948388069,"sku":"NP9781912685844","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781912685844.jpg?v=1767740340","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-love-makers-isbn-9781912685844","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}