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Our Artificial Future: What Generative AI Means for Law and Society

By David Atkinson
Coming Soon Cambridge University Press Available September 2026

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ISBN-13
9781009719629
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
September 2026
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The Generative AI revolution is driven by corporations demanding legal superpowers. If we allow it to continue unchecked, the implications will be profound. This urgent, critical book exposes the unprecedented push by trillion-dollar companies to build AI on billions of unauthorized human works and redefine fundamental areas of law, including copyright, contract, and free speech.

Written by an industry insider who turned from AI champion to AI critic, this highly accessible work promotes AI literacy and provides essential tools to pierce the hype. Readers will learn how to assess AI's profound societal risks to democracy and autonomy and ensure that we are the architects of-and not bystanders in-our artificial future.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I. Understanding Generative Artificial Intelligence
1. Overview
2. Why GenAI is Made
3. How GenAI is Made
4. How GenAI is Measured
Part II. An Overview of Key Concepts: 5. Web Scraping
6. The AI Race
7. GenAIuflecting
8. The Illusion of Democratization
9. Automation Bias
10. Anthropomorphizing
Part III. Legal
11. An Introduction to Copyright Law
12. Copyright Law and GenAI Exceptionalism
13. An Introduction to the First Amendment
14. The First Amendment and GenAI Exceptionalism
15. Contract Law and Websites
16. Contract Law and GenAI Exceptionalism
17. Licensing for GenAI
18. Tort Law: Negligence and Product Liability
19. Property, Exclusion, and Trespass
Part IV. Societal Implications
20. The Economics of the Internet
21. Oligopolies
22. Environmental Impact
23. GenAI in Education
24. Education and Democracy
Part V. Looking Further Ahead
25. Human Autonomy
26. Artificial General Intelligence
Part VI: What to Do About It
27. Frameworks for Thinking About GenAI.
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