David Runciman is professor of politics at Cambridge University. He is the author of seven previous books, including The Confidence Trap and How Democracy Ends. He lives in Cambridge, UK.
"""[A] searching meditation on creeping dehumanization . . . Runciman’s approach to these issues is less technological than social and psychological . . . The result is a shrewd and stimulating look at society’s drive toward an inhuman perfection."" -- Publishers Weekly, starred review ""Amid a headlong international panic about a looming robot insurrection, David Runciman offers a searching history of earlier takeovers by other artificial creatures of our own making—states and corporations—and a stirring call for a new and fortified commitment to all that is human."" -- Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States ""David Runciman is always fascinating."" -- Adam Tooze ""One of the great modern writers of democracy."" -- Anne Applebaum ""Surely one of the most luminously intelligent [writers] on politics to have been published for many years."" -- New Statesman (UK)"