Darknet – Book Review

Darknet is one of the most interesting and thought provoking sci fi books that I have read in awhile. As someone who is deeply immersed in the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence, I have come across or thought about many of the ideas that have been presented in this book, especially the central theme – autonomous agents that aided by our increasingly digital online worlds, become capable enough to run their own corporate entities. Technology is not quite there yet for a creation of such an agent, but it's probably much closer than most people realize. That's why it was really interesting to go through the intellectual exercise of imagining what kind of things would such an entity engage in if it comes to be. For that reason alone Darknet is very worthwhile read for all AI geeks out there.