ISBN:
9780815377948
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 164 pages
,
Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Post-human institutions and organizations
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Technology Social aspects
;
Artificial intelligence Social aspects
;
Bionics Social aspects
;
Techniksoziologie
;
Künstliche Intelligenz
;
Bionik
Abstract:
Introduction: Digital society's techno-totalitarian matrix / Ismael Al-Amoudi and Emmanuel Lazega -- What they are saying about artificial intelligence and human enhancement / Doug Porpora -- Considering artificial intelligence personhood / Margaret S. Archer -- Post-human sociality : morphing experience and emergent forms / Andrea M. Maccarini -- The digital matrix and the hybridisation of society / Pierpaolo Donati -- Stupid ways of working smart? Colonising the future through policy advice / Jamie Morgan -- Anormative black boxes : artificial intelligence and health policy / Ismael Al-Amoudi and John S. Latsis -- Swarm-teams with digital exoskeleton : on new military templates for the organizational society / Emmanuel Lazega.
Abstract:
"When the Matrix trilogy was published in the mid-1980s, it introduced to mass culture a number of post-human tropes about the conscious machines that have haunted our collective imaginaries ever since. This volume explores the social representations and significance of technological developments - especially AI and human enhancement - that have started to transform our human agency. It uses these developments to revisit theories of the human mind and its essential characteristics: a first person perspective, concerns and reflexivity. It looks at how the smart machines are used as agents of change in the basic institutions and organisations that hold contemporary societies together: for example in the family and the household, in commercial corporations, in health institutions, or in the military. Its main purpose it to enrich the ongoing public discussion of the social and political implications of the smart machines by looking at the extent to which they further digitalize and bureaucratize the world, in particular by asking whether they are used to develop techno-totalitarian societies that corrode normativity and solidarity"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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