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Artificial Life After Frankenstein brings the insights born of Mary Shelley''s legacy to bear upon the ethics and politics of making artificial life and intelligence in the twenty-first century.
What are the obligations of humanity to the artificial creatures we make? And what are the corresponding rights of those creatures, whether they are learning machines or genetically modified organisms? In seeking ways to respond to these questions, so vital for our age of genetic engineering and artificial intelligence, we would do well to turn to the capacious mind and imaginative genius of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). Shelley''s novels Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) and The Last Man (1826) precipitated a modern political strain of science fiction concerned with the ethical dilemmas that arise when we make artificial life—and make life artificial—through science, technology, and other forms of cultural change.
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      Publisher: MT - University of Pennsylvania Press
      Publication Date: 4/25/2024
      ISBN13: 9781512826173, 978-1512826173
      ISBN10: 1512826170
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      Book Synopsis

      Artificial Life After Frankenstein brings the insights born of Mary Shelley''s legacy to bear upon the ethics and politics of making artificial life and intelligence in the twenty-first century.
      What are the obligations of humanity to the artificial creatures we make? And what are the corresponding rights of those creatures, whether they are learning machines or genetically modified organisms? In seeking ways to respond to these questions, so vital for our age of genetic engineering and artificial intelligence, we would do well to turn to the capacious mind and imaginative genius of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). Shelley''s novels Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) and The Last Man (1826) precipitated a modern political strain of science fiction concerned with the ethical dilemmas that arise when we make artificial life—and make life artificial—through science, technology, and other forms of cultural change.
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