Cyborg Futures

Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

AvTeresa Heffernan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Del i serien Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-12-06
Mått:148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt:388 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI
Antal sidor:187
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030218355

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Teresa Heffernan is Professor of English at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS. Her current research is on the science and fiction of robotics and AI. Her previous books include Veiled Figures: Women, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism (2016) and Post-Apocalyptic Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel (2008).

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Evolution Ain't Engineering: Animals, Robots, and the Messy Struggle for Existence.- Chapter 3: Demystifying the Intelligent Machine.- Chapter 4: Autonomy of Artificial Intelligence, Ecology and Existential Risk: A Critique.- Chapter 5: Visions of Swarming Robots: Artificial Intelligence and Stupidity in the Military-Industrial Projection of the Future of Warfare.- Chapter 6: The Business of Ethics, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter 7: Fiction Meets Science: Ex Machina, Artificial Intelligence and the Robotics Industry.- Chapter 8: Rossum's Mimesis.- Chapter 9: Race and Robotics.