Making Sense of AI: Our Algorithmic World

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Industrial robots, self-driving cars, customer-service chatbots and Google's algorithmic predictions have brought the topic of artificial intelligence into public debate. Why is AI the source of such intense controversy and what are its economic, political, social and cultural consequences? Tracing the changing fortunes of artificial intelligence, Elliott develops a systematic account of how automated intelligent machines impact different spheres and aspects of public and private life. Among the issues discussed are the automation of workforces, surveillance capitalism, warfare and lethal autonomous weapons, the spread of racist robots and the automation of social inequalities. Elliott also considers the decisive role of AI in confronting global risks and social futures, including global pandemics such as COVID-19, and how smart algorithms are impacting the search for energy security and combating climate change. Making Sense of AI provides a judiciously comprehensive account of artificial intelligence for those with little or no previous knowledge of the topic. It will be an invaluable book both for students in the social sciences and humanities and for general readers. Cover Title page Copyright page Contents Preface 1 The Origins of Artificial Intelligence What is Artificial Intelligence? Frontiers of AI: Global Transformations, Everyday Life Complex Systems, Intelligent Automation and Surveillance 2 Making Sense of AI Two Theoretical Perspectives: Sceptics and Transformationalists Sceptics Transformationalists Integrating the Insights 3 Global Innovation and National Strategies World Leaders: USA, China and Globalization The USA China’s AI Ambitions The World Leaders Compared The EU and European Developments Finland Poland The UK Outliers: UAE, Japan and Australia 4 The Institutional Dimensions of AI Complex Adaptive Systems and AI The Increasing Scale of AI Path-Dependent Connections: New and Old Technologies The Globalization of AI Technologies and Industries The Diffusion of AI in Institutional and Everyday Life AI and Complexity The Penetration of AI into Lifestyle Change and the Self AI, Surveillance and the Transformation of Power Human-Machine Interfaces and Coactive Interactions Complex Systems Human-Machine Interfaces Interfaces and the Changing Location of Social Actors 5 Automation and the Fate of Employment Robots Replacing Jobs: AI, Automation, Employment Automated Professions, Robot Managers Globalization, Globots and Remote Intelligence Empowerment: Education, Reskilling, Retraining 6 Social Inequalities Since AI Automating Social Inequalities Ghosts in the Machine: Racist Robots AI and Gender Troubles Digital Inequalities: Chatbots and Social Exclusion 7 Algorithmic Surveillance The Digital Revolution and Panoptic Surveillance After Super-Panopticon: Surveillance Capitalism Military Power: Drones, Killer Robots and Lethal Automated Weapons 8 The Futures of AI The Future Now: COVID-19 and Global AI Automated Societies: Networked Artificial Life The Year 2045: The Technological Singularity AI Climate Futures Algorithmic Power and Trust Further Reading Notes Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Index EULA