Dark Pools is the fast-paced, revelatory, and deeply unsettling story of how global markets have been taken over by robotic trading – many of them so self-directed that humans cannot predict their actions. It is the story of the dazzlingly smart computer programmers behind the rise of these 'bots'. And it is a definitive warning that as artificial intelligence gradually takes over, we may be on the brink of a global meltdown.

"Scott Patterson has the ability to see things that you and I do not notice." Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the New York Times bestselling book Antifragile, Fooled by Randomness, and The Black Swan

Pages: 368, Dimensions: 13x13cm