Forever

A legal sci-fi story

By: Daniel Gervais

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Paperback | 1 August 2023

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262 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 1.5

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Depicts a scenario in which technology allows humans to live forever, providing rich backdrop filled with Russian poetry and cinema, and reflections about life and death.

With the use of artificial intelligence (AI), the border that has traditionally separated fact, or 'nonfiction', and fiction has become increasingly porous. Think of posts on social media by bots pretending to be human, altered photos and videos, including deep fakes. Science-fiction has always held a special place in this divide; it is often the nonfiction of tomorrow. In this book, the author crosses the border in both directions, using fiction to teach the law of AI by asking the reader to follow Christine Jacobs, a law professor, and her students, in discussing what it means to be human in the age of AI, humanoid robots, and cyborgs as her boyfriend prepares the world for what's next. Crisscrossed by world travel, peppered with fine food and wines, filled with Russian poetry and cinema, and reflections about life and death, this book invites the reader to a world in which technology allows humans to live forever-as long as they are willing to die first.

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âDaniel Gervais has produced something truly new: an amalgam of science fiction and legal education that together comprise a meditation on humanityâs future in a world of pervasive and rapidly advancing artificial intelligence and robotics. Danielâs story, which is at turns engrossing, profound, learned, funny, and profane, aims ultimately at one eternal questionâ"what makes us human.ââ"Christopher Jon Sprigman, Murray and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law, Co-Director, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, New York University School of Law, USA.

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