{ "item_title" : "The Invisible Army", "item_author" : [" Cara Steele "], "item_description" : "Somewhere on a battlefield, a machine has already killed a human being with no person deciding.Not in a film. Not in a warning about the future. It has happened, it is documented, and it is only the beginning.In The Invisible Platform, Cara Steele showed how a handful of companies came to control what we see and say. In The Invisible Algorithm, how machines came to judge and decide about us. Now, in Book Three of The Invisible State, she follows the gravest power of all - the power to kill - as it passes out of accountable human hands in two directions at once: to the autonomous weapon that fires without a human choosing, and to the private companies that increasingly own the surveillance, the targeting, and the war itself.From the drones that killed on their own in Ukraine, to the AI targeting systems of Gaza, to the spyware industries of Israel, Russia, and China, to the empty room where a wrongful killing occurs and no one - not the operator, not the commander, not the machine - can be found to answer, this is a clear-eyed, global account of how organized violence is being severed from human conscience and human accountability at the same time.It is not a war on the machine. The intelligence is real, and the security fears are genuine, and Steele grants every argument its full weight before she turns it. But the question at the heart of the book cannot be evaded: When a machine kills, owned by a company, licensed to a state, and no one can be held to answer - who is left to say no?Documented, even-handed, and structural rather than partisan, The Invisible Army is for anyone who senses that the most consequential decision a society can make is quietly slipping beyond reach - and wants to understand it while there is still time to decide.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/068/9798190689471_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "6.99", "online_price" : "6.99", "our_price" : "6.99", "club_price" : "6.99", "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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