# Professor Amy Webb's book, "The Big Nine," is named to the longlist for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award

1 School News August 10, 2019 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025700.jpg?itok=LSPbU2V1)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/01ef790c-b7a0-11e9-96bd-8e884d3ea203) -- "[Amy Webb](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/amy-webb)’s The Big Nine examines the largest US and Chinese companies dominating the introduction of AI into our lives. She offers dystopian and more optimistic scenarios for how machines may develop — and how humans could influence their development."

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