Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents: Critiques from the Social Sciences and Humanities

Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents: Critiques from the Social Sciences and Humanities (Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI)
Author: Ariane Hanemaayer
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2022 edition (2 Feb. 2022)
Language: English
Hardcover: 290 pages
ISBN-10: 303088614X
ISBN-13: 9783030886141
Book Description
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On what basis can we challenge Artificial Intelligence (AI) – its infusion, investment, and implementation across the globe? This book answers this question Author: drawing on a range of critical approaches from the social sciences and humanities, including posthumanism, ethics and human values, surveillance studies, Black feminism, and other strategies for social and political resistance. The authors analyse timely topics, including bias and language processing, responsibility and machine learning, COVID-19 and AI in health technologies, bio-AI and nanotechnology, digital ethics, AI and the gig economy, representations of AI in literature and culture, and many more. This book is for those who are currently working in the field of AI critique and disruption as well as in AI development and programming. It is also for those who want to learn more about how to doubt, question, challenge, reject, reform and otherwise reprise AI as it been practiced and promoted.