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

By David Atkinson

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009719610
• ISBN13: 9781009719612
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages