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As Renaissance Europe depended on knowledge from the Ottoman Empire, and the courts of Mehmed the Conqueror and Bayezid II greatly benefitted from knowledge coming out of Europe, merchants of knowledge―multilingual and transregional Jewish scholars―became an important bridge among the powers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith this book, Robert Morrison is the first to track the network of scholars who mediated exchanges in astronomy, astrology, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eQabbalah\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and philosophy. Their books, manuscripts, and acts of translation all held economic value, thus commercial and intellectual exchange commingled―knowledge became transactional as these merchants exchanged texts for more intellectual material and social capital. While parallels between medieval Islamic astronomy and the famous heliocentric arrangement posited by Copernicus are already known, Morrison reveals far deeper networks of intellectual exchange that extended well beyond theoretical astronomy and shows how religion, science, and philosophy, areas that will eventually develop into separate fields, were once interwoven. The Renaissance portrayed in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMerchants of Knowledge\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is not, from the perspective of the Ottoman Muslim contacts of the Jewish merchants of knowledge, hegemonic. It's a Renaissance permeated by diversity, the cultural and political implications of which the West is only now waking up to.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Robert G. 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They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome―not by us, but by our machines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet rather than open new futures, today's powerful AI technologies reproduce the past. Forged from oceans of our data into immensely powerful but flawed mirrors, they reflect the same errors, biases, and failures of wisdom that we strive to escape. Our new digital mirrors point \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ebackward\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. They show only where the data say that we have already been, never where we might venture together for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo meet today's grave challenges to our species and our planet, we will need something new from AI, and from ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShannon Vallor makes a wide-ranging, prophetic, and philosophical case for what AI could be: a way to reclaim our human potential for moral and intellectual growth, rather than lose ourselves in mirrors of the past. Rejecting prophecies of doom, she encourages us to pursue technology that helps us recover our sense of the possible, and with it the confidence and courage to repair a broken world. 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