Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future

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Machine learning, big data and AI are reshaping the human experience and forcing us to develop a new ethical intelligence. Peter Hershock offers a new way to think about attention, personal presence, and ethics as intelligent technology shatters previously foundational certainties and opens entirely new spaces of opportunity. Rather than turning exclusively to cognitive science and contemporary ethical theories, Hershock shows how classical Confucian and Socratic philosophies help to make visible what a history of choices about remaking ourselves through control biased technology has rendered invisible. But it is in Buddhist thought and practice that Hershock finds the tools for valuing and training our attention, resisting the colonization of consciousness, and engendering a more equitable and diversity-enhancing human-technology-world relationship. Focusing on who we need to be present as to avoid a future in which machines prevent us from either making or learning from our own mistakes, Hershock offers a constructive response to the unprecedented perils of intelligent technology and seamlessly blends ancient and contemporary philosophies to envision how to realize its equally unprecedented promises. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Buddhism: A Philosophical Repertoire 2 Artificial Intelligence: A Brief History 3 Intelligent Technology: A Revolution in the Making 4 Total Attention Capture and Control: A Future to Avoid 5 Anticipating an Ethics of Intelligence 6 Dimensions of Ethical Agency: Confucian Conduct, Socratic Reasoning, and Buddhist Consciousness 7 Humane Becoming: Cultivating Responsive Virtuosity 8 Course Correction: A Middle Path Through Data Governance 9 Course Correction: A Middle Path Through Education Notes 1 Buddhism: A Philosophical Repertoire 2 Artificial Intelligence: A Brief History 3 Intelligent Technology: A Revolution in the Making 4 Total Attention Capture and Control: A Future to Avoid 5 Anticipating an Ethics of Intelligence 6 Dimensions of Ethical Agency: Confucian Conduct, Socratic Reasoning, and Buddhist Consciousness 7 Humane Becoming: Cultivating Responsive Virtuosity 8 Course Correction: A Middle Path Through Data Governance 9 Course Correction: A Middle Path Through Education References Index