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The age of prediction : algorithms, AI, and the shifting shadows of risk / Igor Tulchinsky and Christopher E. Mason.

by Tulchinsky, Igor, 1966-

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The MIT Press, 2023.

601.12028563 T917a

Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects.

Artificial intelligence -- Risk assessment.

Predictive analytics.

Predictive analytics -- Social aspects.

9780262047739 (hc.)

xii, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Igor Tulchinsky is founder, chairman, and CEO of WorldQuant, a quantitative investment firm based in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. He is the author of Finding Alphas: A Quantitative Approach to Building Trading Strategies and The UnRules: Man, Machines and the Quest to Master Markets. Christopher E. Mason is Professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Director of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction. He also holds affiliate appointments at the New York Genome Center, Yale Law School, and the Consortium for Space Genetics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Mason is the author of The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and index.

"The interplay between prediction and risk and role of advanced predictive technologies (biotechnology, AI, and big data) in provoking social change"--From publisher.

"Tells about two powerful, and symbiotic, trends: the rapid development and use of artificial intelligence and big data to enhance prediction, as well as the often paradoxical effects of these better predictions on our understanding of risk and the ways we live. Beginning with dramatic advances in quantitative investing and precision medicine, this book explores how predictive technology is quietly reshaping our world in fundamental ways, from crime fighting and warfare to monitoring individual health and elections. As prediction grows more robust, it also alters the nature of the accompanying risk, setting up unintended and unexpected consequences. The book details how predictive certainties can bring about complacency or even an increase in risks -- genomic analysis might lead to unhealthier lifestyles or a GPS might encourage less attentive driving. With greater predictability also comes a degree of mystery, and the authors ask how narrower risks might affect markets, insurance, or risk tolerance generally. Can we ever reduce risk to zero? Should we even try? This book lays an intriguing groundwork for answering these fundamental questions and maps out the latest tools and technologies that power these projections into the future, sometimes using novel, cross-disciplinary tools."

Mason, Christopher E.

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