A camera peers out from the front grill of Google's self-driving car in Mountain View, California, on May 13, 2014.

The Once and Future Robot Helper

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 1, 2015

In Machines of Loving Grace, New York Times reporter John Markoff, the first reporter to write extensively about the development of the World Wide Web, offers a sweeping history of the complicated and evolving relationship between humans and computers. As Markoff chronicles the history of automation, from the birth of the artificial intelligence and intelligence augmentation communities in the 1950s, to the modern day brain trusts at Google and Apple in Silicon Valley, he traces the different ways developers have addressed this fundamental problem and urges them to carefully consider the consequences of their work.

Event: John Markoff will be in conversation with Steven Levy at Greenlight Bookstore (686 Fulton St. Brooklyn, NY), September 2 at 7:30pm

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