{"product_id":"artificial-intelligence-and-its-discontents-critiques-from-the-social-sciences-and-humanities-9783030886172","title":"Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents: Critiques from the Social Sciences and Humanities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn what basis can we challenge Artificial Intelligence (AI) - its infusion, investment, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand implementation across the globe? This book answers this question by \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edrawing on a range of critical approaches from the social sciences and humanities, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eincluding posthumanism, ethics and human values, surveillance studies, Black \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efeminism, and other strategies for social and political resistance. The authors \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eanalyse timely topics, including bias and language processing, responsibility \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand machine learning, COVID-19 and AI in health technologies, bio-AI and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enanotechnology, digital ethics, AI and the gig economy, representations of AI in \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eliterature and culture, and many more. This book is for those who are currently \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eworking in the field of AI critique and disruption as well as in AI development and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprogramming. It is also for those who want to learn more about how to doubt, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003equestion, challenge, reject, reform and otherwise reprise AI as it been practiced \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand promoted. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book offers a number of useful critiques of AI as it interacts with increasing numbers of Internet users. Readers should take the Marxist perspectives with a grain of salt.” (G. R. Mayforth, Computing Reviews, October 19, 2022)\u003cbr\u003e“All of the chapters are well written and the editorial process was clearly very good. … I found four essays particularly noteworthy … . If you are limited on time, these core essays are must-reads. I found this book interesting because it disclosed to me what others outside the computational science community see.” (Anthony J. Duben, Computing Reviews, July 20, 2022)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Introduction: Critical Insights: Bringing the social sciences and humanities to AI.- Section I: Posthumanism.- Chapter 2: Virtually Grown Up: Artificial Intelligence in Youth Fiction.- Chapter 3: The Feminized Robot: Labour and Harawayan Afterlives.- Section II: Human values.- Chapter 4: AI’s fast and furtive spread by infusion into technologies that are already in use – a critical assessment.- Chapter 5: Dumbwaiters \u0026amp; Smartphones: The Responsibility of Intelligence.- Section III: Media and Language.- Chapter 6: Artificial Intelligence: a medium that hides its nature.- Chapter 7: Gender Bias in Machine Translation Systems.- Section IV: Governance.- Chapter 8: Not Anytime Soon: The clinical translation of nanorobots.- Chapter 9: Controversial Covid-19 contact-tracing app in India: digital self-defence, governance and surveillance.- Chapter 10: Intelligent Justice’: AI Implementations in China's Legal Systems.- Section V: Resistance.- Chapter 11: Artificial Intelligence between Oppression and Resistance: Black Feminist Perspectives on Emerging Technologies.- Chapter 12: AI Ruined the Internet – and Everything Else: A manifesto.- Index.","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52085968601431,"sku":"9783030886172","price":74.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783030886172.jpg?v=1762211552","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/artificial-intelligence-and-its-discontents-critiques-from-the-social-sciences-and-humanities-9783030886172","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}