Cyborg futures : cross-disciplinary perspectives on artificial intelligence and robotics /

Cyborg futures : cross-disciplinary perspectives on artificial intelligence and robotics /

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Imprint:Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Social and cultural studies of robots and AI
Social and cultural studies of robots and AI.
Subject:
Artificial intelligence.
Robotics.
Human-robot interaction.
Robotics -- Human factors.
Artificial intelligence.
Human-robot interaction.
Robotics.
Robotics -- Human factors.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11997872
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Other authors / contributors:Heffernan, Teresa, 1962- editor.
ISBN:3030218368
9783030218362
9783030218355
303021835X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 10, 2019).
Summary:This volume brings together academics from evolutionary biology, literary theory, robotics, digital culture, anthropology, sociology, and environmental studies to consider the impact of robotics and AI on society. By bringing these perspectives together in one book, readers gain a sense of the complex scientific, social, and ideological contexts within which AI and robotics research is unfolding, as well as the illusory suppositions and distorted claims being mobilized by the industry in the name of bettering humanity's future. Discussions about AI and robotics have been shaped by computer science and engineering, steered by corporate and military interests, forged by transhumanist philosophy and libertarian politics, animated by fiction, and hyped by the media. From fiction passing as science to the illusion of AI autonomy to the business of ethics to the automation of war, this collection recognizes the inevitable entanglement of humanity and technology, while exposing the problematic assumptions and myths driving the field in order to better assess its risks and potential.
Other form:Print version: 9783030218355 303021835X
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; References; Chapter 2: Evolution Ain't Engineering: Animals, Robots, and the Messy Struggle for Existence; Evolution Suffices; A History of Struggles: Darwin's Finches; Modeling the Struggles: Evolutionary Biorobotics; Evolution Ain't Engineering; References; Chapter 3: Demystifying the Intelligent Machine; Relocating Imaginaries of Machine Intelligence; Generating Robotic Progeny; Where Is Deep Blue?; Bodies in Relation; Slow Robots and Slippery Rhetorics; Domesticating Robot Labors
  • The Labors of ViolenceConclusion; References; Chapter 4: Autonomy of Artificial Intelligence, Ecology, and Existential Risk: A Critique; Introduction; Rationality and Autonomy in the AI Risk Discourse; AI and the Illusion of Transcendent Rationality; Capitalist Context of Rationality; Capitalist Subjects, Transcendental Rationality; Bostrom's Occult Motivations of AI Machines; Saving Transcendent Intelligence, Abandoning Earth; References; Chapter 5: Visions of Swarming Robots: Artificial Intelligence and Stupidity in the Military-Industrial Projection of the Future of Warfare; Introduction
  • Mind the GapSwarming as Natural Inspiration for Military Futures; Emergent Stupidity; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: The Business of Ethics, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence; Introduction; What Is Ethics?; Why Ethics Now?; Why Robots and AI and Ethics?; Corporate Anthropomorphism; Why We Need a Feminist Ethics of Robots and AI; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: Fiction Meets Science: Ex Machina, Artificial Intelligence, and the Robotics Industry; References; Chapter 8: Rossum's Mimesis; Rossum's tekhne; Mimetics and Politics; Mimetic Arts: Shifting Genres
  • Utopian Vision: A Singularity?References; Chapter 9: Race and Robotics; References; Index

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