In AI we trust : power, illusion and control of predictive algorithms / Helga Nowotny
By: Nowotny, Helga [author].
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, ©2021Description: vii, 184 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509548811; 1509548815.Subject(s): Artificial intelligenceGenre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | Q335 .N685 2021 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000018251 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: a personal journey into Digi-land -- Life in the digital time machine -- Welcome to the Mirror World -- The quest for public happiness and the narrative of progress -- Future needs wisdom -- Disruption: from BC (Before COVID-19) to AD (After Domestication)
"A highly original account of the nature of artificial intelligence and its implications for our future"--
"One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI - and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions and for what it means to be human. AI changes our experience of time and the future and challenges our identities, yet we are blinded by its efficiency and fail to understand how it affects us. At the heart of our trust in AI lies a paradox: we leverage AI to increase our control over the future and uncertainty, while at the same time the performativity of AI, the power it has to make us act in the ways it predicts, reduces our agency over the future. This happens when we forget that that we humans have created the digital technologies to which we attribute agency. These developments also challenge the narrative of progress, which played such a central role in modernity and is based on the hubris of total control. We are now moving into an era where this control is limited as AI monitors our actions, posing the threat of surveillance, but also offering the opportunity to reappropriate control and transform it into care." --