How to Stay Smart in a Smart World

Enlightening, impassioned, powerful … exposes the hunger for autocratic power, the political naivety and the commercial chicanery that lie behind the rise of AI – Simon Ings * The Times *Using personal anecdotes, cutting-edge research and cautionary real-world tales, Gigerenzer deftly explains the limits and dangers of technology and AI – Chen Ly * New Scientist *Compelling … over many years, Gerd Gigerenzer has provided evidence that humans are smarter than economists. Now he shows that they are (where it matters) smarter than computers – John Kay * co-author of Radical Uncertainty *One of the world’s most eminent psychologists * Spectator *A fascinating invitation to keep thinking for ourselves… Vital reading for a world populated by algorithms – Konstantinos Katsikopoulos, Professor of Behavioural Science, University of Southampton

Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Harding Centre for Risk Literacy at the University of Potsdam and partner of Simply Rational- The Institute for Decisions. He is former Director of the Centre for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and a former Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books on heuristics and decision-making, including Risk Savvy and Reckoning with Risk.