Our Minds Under Siege

How to Avoid Being Manipulated in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
A broadly intelligible analysis of how AI and other new technologies work and what their impacts are.

Author, curator and podcaster Bruno Giussani was the European director and global curator of the TED conferences for two decades (200524). In Our Minds Under Siege, the specialist of digital culture writes about the technologies of influence and their social and political implications. In a world saturated with information, social media, artificial intelligence and strategies of cognitive influence, our capacity for thinking clearly and understanding reality is itself under threat. It is no longer only about disinformation and fake news: these technologies capture our attention, appropriate our data, analyse and exploit our emotions and challenge our autonomy of thought.

Giussani decrypts how AI and other algorithmic technolog