Artificial Intelligence

Advantages, Disadvantages, Benefits, and Threats
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-10172-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

This book introduces the subject of Artificial Intelligence, its structures, its uses, its application to the Artificial Neural Network, its technology applications, and the advantages and disadvantages of its use, including its potential weaknesses and drawbacks.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems. It is a field of research in computer science that develops and studies methods and software that enable machines to perceive their environment and use learning and intelligence to take actions that maximize their chances of achieving defined goals. Such machines may be called AIs.

AI technology is widely used throughout industry, government, and science. Some high-profile applications include advanced web search engines (e.g., Google Search); recommendation systems (used by facilities such as YouTube, Amazon, and Netflix); interacting via human speech (e.g., Google Assistant, Siri, and Alexa); autonomous vehicles (e.g. Waymo); generative and creative tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Apple Intelligence, and AI art); and superhuman play and analysis in strategy games (e.g., chess and Go). However, many AI applications are not perceived as AI: For example, a lot of forefronts and cutting-edge AI has filtered into general applications, often without being called AI because once something becomes useful enough and common enough it is no longer labeled as AI anymore.

The growing use of artificial intelligence in the 21st century is influencing a societal and economic shift towards increased automation, data-driven decision-making, and the integration of AI systems into various economic and commercial sectors and areas of everyday life, impacting job markets, healthcare, government, industry, education, propaganda, and disinformation and deception, whether deliberate of otherwise. This raises questions about the long-term effects, ethical implications, and risks of AI, prompting discussions about regulatory policies to ensure the safety and benefits of the technology.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rowbotham, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Informationstechnik, IT-Industrie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Wissensmanagement
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Produktionsmanagement, Qualitätskontrolle
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE: THE USE OF DATA
INTRODUCTION: HOW DID CYBERNETICS EVOLVE?
1: NEURAL NETWORKS
2: WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?
3: THE BLACK ART OF PERSUASION
4: THE ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK – MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK
5: MACHINE LEARNING
6: CREATIVITY OR DECEPTION?
7: INTERNAL RISK – DUFF INFORMATION, DUFF INFORMATION OUT
8: EXTERNAL RISK – HACKING AND UNLAWFUL INTRUSION
9: INFORMATION, MISINFORMATION OR UNDUE INFLUENCE
10: THE RISE OF ROBOTICS AND CYBERNETIC ORGANISMS
11: PLAYING WITH THE BIG BOYS NOW – THE INFLUENCE OF THE MULTINATIONALS AND BIG GOVERNMENT
12: TREAD WITH CAUTION – FILTER OUT THE GOOD AND DISCARD THE REST
13: THE VALUE OF PERCEPTION
14: CONCLUSIONS

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Rowbotham is an International Consultant, Trainer, and writer in Customs and VAT Compliance and Risk issues, as well as other areas including International Trade, Excise, Export Controls, Oil & Gas Offshore, and Marine issues. He has spent a considerable length of time working in both the Government, Commercial, and Academic sectors. He deals primarily with Compliance, Control, and Procedural issues in Customs, Excise, VAT, and Logistics, and is a trainer in these issues as well as International Trade, Supply Chain, Finance, and Risk Management courses.

He was originally an Officer in HM Customs & Excise, dealing with Import and Export Controls on maritime freight traffic into and out of UK Ports, and became an independent consultant and trainer in 2000, dealing primarily with Customs compliances, procedures, and documentation. He advises on these issues and undertakes training, advisory, and consultancy work in these areas.

He gained a master’s degree in international relations and political economy in 1995 and is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK), as well as a member of the Institute of Export in the UK.

He has written extensively about Customs, International Supply Chain, and Marine Compliance issues for a wide variety of International Trade and Logistics publications and journals and has had a book published in 2008, entitled Introduction to Marine Cargo Management, Second Edition published in 2015. He also advises several Chambers of Commerce in the UK on Customs, VAT, and International Trade issues, frequently delivering advice, training courses, and seminars on these subjects. He is an accredited trainer for the British Chambers of Commerce and has also been an adviser to UK Trade & Investment (now DIT) on Customs Procedures about trade with the Americas.