{ "item_title" : "The Human Difference", "item_author" : [" Robert L. Maginnis "], "item_description" : "What does it mean to be human when machines can increasingly imitate the things we once considered uniquely ours? Robert L. Maginnis has spent five decades watching nations answer the question of human worth in radically different ways, from the Cold War confrontation with communism to today's race for artificial intelligence. Now technology is making the question more urgent. AI can converse, create, advise, persuade, and increasingly act. Biotechnology can alter the human body. Transhumanists envision overcoming biological limitations altogether. But greater machine capability does not make the machine human, and greater technological power does not give us authority to redefine ourselves. In The Human Difference, Maginnis argues that the crisis beneath today's technological revolution is a crisis of anthropology. Western civilization is forgetting the conviction that once grounded its understanding of dignity, freedom, responsibility, and human worth: men and women are created in the image of God. Moving from Scripture and history to artificial intelligence, biotechnology, digital companionship, education, family life, national security, and the future of work, The Human Difference asks not simply what technology can do, but what human beings should never surrender to it. Technology can augment human capability. It cannot confer human dignity. It can simulate intelligence, companionship, creativity, and even religious language. It cannot bear the image of God. The question facing the AI age is therefore not merely how intelligent our machines will become. It is whether we will remember what makes us human.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/899/741/9798997411060_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "20.00", "online_price" : "20.00", "our_price" : "20.00", "club_price" : "20.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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