Overview
We live in a world increasingly ruled by technology; we seem as governed by technology as we do by laws and regulations. Frighteningly often, the influence of technology in and on our lives goes completely unchallenged by citizens and governments. We comfort ourselves with the soothing refrain that technology has no morals and can display no prejudice, and it's only the users of technology who distort certain aspects of it. But is this statement actually true? Dr. Robert Smith thinks it is dangerously untrue in the modern era. Having worked in the field of artificial intelligence for over thirty years, Smith reveals the mounting evidence that the mechanical actors in our lives do indeed have, or at least express, morals: they're just not the morals of the progressive modern society that we imagined we were moving towards. Instead, as we are just beginning to see--in the US elections and Brexit to name but a few--there are increasing incidences of machine bigotry, greed, and the crass manipulation of our basest instincts. This book demonstrates how non-scientific ideas have been encoded deep into our technological infrastructure. Offering a rigorous, fresh perspective on how technology has brought us to this place, Rage Inside the Machine challenges the long-held assumption that technology is an apolitical and amoral force.
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Author: Sean Pratt ,
Robert Elliott Smith
Publisher: Gildan Media Corporation
Imprint: Gildan Media Corporation
ISBN: 9798200572175
Publication Date: 29 September 2020
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Sean Pratt, a working actor for over twenty-five years, has performed at numerous regional theaters around the country. He is the author of To Be or Wanna Be, and he has recorded over seven hundred books in just about every genre, earning eight AudioFile Earphones Awards and four Audie Award nominations. Robert Elliott Smith has authored over thirty-five journal articles, ten book chapters, and over seventy-five conference papers. He has conducted research projects for the US Army Strategic Defense Command, The Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, NASA, Boeing, NSF, EPSRC, the European Union, DERA, British Aerospace, Airbus, and British Telecom. Rob is a former associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and the journal Evolutionary Computation and a fellow of the RSA: The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Currently, he works as chief technology officer for BOXARR Ltd., a company he helped found. He also works part-time as a senior research fellow of computer science at University College London, where he was also a founding member of The UCL Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty.
