New Release: Pamela McCorduck's This Could Be Important: My Life and Times with the Artificial Intelligentsia -- ETC Press

The ETC Press and its Signature imprint are proud to announce the release of Pamela McCorduck's latest book, This Could Be Important: My Life and Times with the Artificial Intelligentsia. In 1979 Pamela McCorduck published the first modern history of artificial intelligence, Machines Who Think. But as This Could Be Important shows, she'd been intrigued by AI for nearly twenty years before that. She'd first met AI when she was an undergraduate English major at Berkeley, and became steeped in the culture at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon Universities. While she couldn't judge whether AI was sound science, or would ever move from the fringes to scientific respectability, she was confident that the people who pursued AI were some of the most intelligent human beings she'd ever had the joy to meet.