AI and Humanity

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Illah Reza Nourbakhsh (Professor of Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University) Jennifer Keating (Assistant Dean for Educational Initiatives, Carnegie Mellon University)

AI and Humanity

Illah Reza Nourbakhsh (Professor of Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University), Jennifer Keating (Assistant Dean for Educational Initiatives, Carnegie Mellon University)

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MIT Press
10 March 2020

Impact of science & technology on society; Machine learning; Human-computer interaction

Series: The MIT Press

An examination of the implications for society of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence systems, combining a humanities perspective with technical analysis; includes exercises and discussion questions.AI and Humanity provides an analytical framing and a common language for understanding the effects of technological advances in artificial intelligence on society. Coauthored by a computer scientist and a scholar of literature and cultural studies, it is unique in combining a humanities perspective with technical analysis, using the tools of literary explication to examine the societal impact of AI systems. It explores the historical development of these technologies, moving from the apparently benign Roomba to the considerably more sinister semi-autonomous weapon system Harpy.

The book is driven by an exploration of the cultural and etymological roots of a series of keywords relevant to both AI and society. Works examined range from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, given a close reading for its themes of literacy and agency, to Simon Head's critique of the effects of surveillance and automation on the Amazon labor force in Mindless.

Originally developed as a textbook for an interdisciplinary humanities-science course at Carnegie Mellon, AI & Humanity offers discussion questions, exercises (including journal writing and concept mapping), and reading lists. A companion website provides updated resources and a portal to a video archive of interviews with AI scientists, sociologists, literary theorists, and others.

By: Illah Reza Nourbakhsh (Professor of Robotics Carnegie Mellon University), Jennifer Keating (Assistant Dean for Educational Initiatives, Carnegie Mellon University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 17mm
ISBN: 9780262043847
ISBN 10: 026204384X
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 10 March 2020
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Illah Reza Nourbakhsh is K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Robot Futures and coauthor of Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots (both published by the MIT Press). Jennifer Keating is Assistant Dean for Educational Initiatives at Dietrich College of Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of Language, Identity, and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature and editor of McCabe's Ireland.