Bøger af James Boyle

How AI will challenge our ideas about personhood. Chatbots like ChatGPT have challenged human exceptionalism: we are no longer the only beings capable of generating language and ideas fluently. But is ChatGPT conscious? Or is it merely engaging in sophisticated mimicry? And what happens in the future if the claims to consciousness are more credible? In The Line, James Boyle explores what these changes might do to our concept of personhood, to "the line" we believe separates our species from the rest of the world, but also separates "persons" with legal rights from objects. The personhood wars--over the rights of corporations, animals, over the question of when life begins and ends--have always been contentious. We've even denied the personhood of members of our own species. How will those old fights affect the new ones, and vice versa? Boyle pursues those questions across a dizzying array of fields. He discusses moral philosophy and science fiction, transgenic species, nonhuman animals, the surprising history of corporate personality, and AI itself. Engaging with empathy and anthropomorphism, courtroom battles on behalf of chimps, and doom-laden projections about the threat of AI, The Line offers fascinating and thoughtful answers to questions about our future that are arriving sooner than we think.

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David Shaw wakes in the hospital with a skull fracture and no memory of the previous week. But that is the least of his problems. His wife and teen stepdaughter are missing. As David works with police to recover memories of the crime and find his family, he has to regard everyone in his life as a possible suspect: his philandering law partner; his drug-dealing brother-in-law; the ex-con father of his step-daughter; the Russian mob. Any of them could be involved. One of them knows where David's family is. Will he be able to find them before it's too late?

Melissa Deveroux, last seen working undercover in A Game of Shadows, is facing a new problem. Someone has shot her sister, a teacher in Beaverton, a suburb of Portland. Melissa travels down from Seattle to support her sister, but really isn't the type to sit quietly in a hospital room while the shooters walk free. With help from Trevor Sanford, she wages a private war against a ruthless narcotics organization, The Sunset Boys.

On the night of February 22, 1856, the Tututni Indians and their allies launched a surprise attack against the white miners along the entire south coast of Oregon. The settlement of Ellensburg, forerunner of today's Gold Beach, is burned to the ground and dozens of people killed. Thus began the war on the lower Rogue River, in terms of the populations involved, the bloodiest of all the conflicts between the American Indians and the Americans. This volume traces the causes of the conflict and the sequence of events that led to the destruction of the Tututnis and the American possession of the southern coast of Oregon.

The authorities say Jason Reynold's father drowned in a boating accident on Puget Sound, but Jason doesn't believe it. His father was a fishing guide. An accident wasn't likely. Once in town, he quickly finds evidence that supports his suspicions: files missing from his father's office; a mysterious photo of an Asian man; and a letter threatening to evict his father unless he stops: "acting against the interests of The Lundgren Corporation."Lundgren Corporation. The company behind the company town.And now they turn their attention to Jason.What follows is a chess match of move and counter-move, pitting Jason and his friends against the security forces of Lundgren. The stakes couldn't be higher because Lundgren had proven they will do whatever is necessary to protect the secret on Deception Island

What do you do when you're false accused of a crime? When Jason Reynolds and his girlfriend/partner Dani Hayden are accused of a heinous sexual assault, it quickly becomes clear that this isn't some deluded mistake or even a get-rich-quick scheme. It is a carefully planned campaign to ruin his reputation and career. And it's working. Social and traditional media can't get enough of the salacious details. How does he save his reputation when any attempt to question anyone would be seen as witness tampering.Enter Taylor Smith. He (under a new name, of course) and his associates are not limited by any legal restraints. Taylor Smith also has skills most people don't. What unfolds is a contest of move and counter-move with Jason's life as the Grand Prize.

This book is a remembrance of Professor Keith Aoki in words and pictures, intended for his friends and family.

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Jason Reynolds, investigative reporter out of Seattle, does not think he can do anything to help his ex-girlfriend's friend, Helen. She is clearly involved in an abusive relationship with a Dunham County Sheriff's Deputy named Travis Wilcox. Then Helen goes missing and Jason and Danielle "Danny" Hayden go to Dunham County where they face an enemy more dangerous than they've ever faced. For Travis Wilcox is part of the Barton family and the Barton family controls Dunham County. They are the county's largest employer and landlord. They are the Sheriff's Department, the District Attorney's Office, and a judge. They can do whatever they want without any consequences. And they do. Jason and Danny will need all their wits and imagination to bring the Bartons and Travis Wilcox to justice without losing their own lives.

Title: A review of Miss Martineau's work on "Society in America"Author: James BoylePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03719200CollectionID: CTRG01-B2995PublicationDate: 18370101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Attributed to James Boyle of Rome, Ashtabula County, Ohio, by Halkett & Laing on the authority of Cushing and to New York journalist George Wilkes by the New York Public Library. Both attributions seem doubtful, as the author appears from the text to be a resident of Boston, Mass. Listed by Sabin under the name "Wilkes [---]?" For evidence that the author is from Boston or vicinity, see p. 31, 38, 41 and 46.Collation: 54 p.; 22 cm

James Boyle explores matters as diverse as blackmail; ownership of genetic information; insider trading; Johnny Carson, Bela Lugosi and the Gay Olympics; the doctor as artist and the patient as "public domain"; cyberspace as land; censorship; and robot slavery in this first social theory of the information age.