cross-disciplinary perspectives on artificial intelligence and robotics /
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Teresa Heffernan, editor.
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Cham, Switzerland :
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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[2019]
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1 online resource
SERIES
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Social and cultural studies of robots and AI
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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
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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
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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
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Utopian Vision: A Singularity?References; Chapter 9: Race and Robotics; References; Index