risk assessment

"A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to coexist successfully with increasingly intelligent machines"--Amazon.

Bill Nye considers the benefits and risks of genetically modified foods. Nye explores the use of genetic engineering in agriculture and identifies a variety of foods that contain genetically modified organisms. He talks with wheat breeders who discuss the benefits of hybrid food crops, with researchers who study organic and pesticide-free crops and with corporations engaged in agricultural biotechnology and the use of GMO's.

Explores the history, benefits, and risks of genetically modified organisms and crops, and chronicles important scientific discoveries in the field as well as the social, philosophical, economic, legal, and political issues that have arisen in response to these discoveries. Includes case studies, documents, a glossary, and an annotated bibliography.

Examines how advancements in genetics, robotics, information, and nanotechnologies are engineering the next stage of human evolution. Explores the positive and negative aspects of these enhancements, discussing whether they add to intelligence and extend lives or if they will lead to ultimate destruction of the human species. Addresses how developments in human technology are affecting the way people work, date, think, act, and fall in love.

Discusses risks involved in state-of-the-art technology and what we can do to make the risks less and prevent disasters such as Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Bhopal.

Argues that the seeds that provide the world with food, fiber, and fuel are at risk from agricultural technologies, patents and corporate ownership, and the degradation of the environment; examines reasons why the author believes genetic engineering is not right for agriculture; and urges consumers to participate in the movement to restore agriculture to its ecological roots.

Explores how advancements in technology have contributed to an increased number of catastrophes in the last fifty years.

Examines the debate over whether the United States should continue putting money into its space program.