[liberationtech] [book announcement] Good Robot, Bad Robot: Dark and Creepy Sides of Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and AI

[Oravec, Jo Ann R]

[Apologies for duplicate posts] My new book on the social and ethical aspects of robotics and AI just came out from Palgrave Macmillan Springer (Good Robot, Bad Robot: Dark and Creepy Sides of Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and AI).
The book is available at https://link.springer.com/book/9783031140129

Here is the book blurb:
This book explores how robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance human lives but also have unsettling “dark sides.”  It examines expanding forms of negativity and anxiety about robots, AI, and autonomous vehicles as our human environments are reengineered for intelligent military and security systems and for optimal workplace and domestic operations. It focuses on the impacts of initiatives to make robot interactions more humanlike and less creepy (as with domestic and sex robots).  It analyzes the emerging resistances against these entities in the wake of omnipresent AI applications (such as “killer robots” and ubiquitous surveillance). It unpacks efforts by developers to have ethical and social influences on robotics and AI and confronts the AI hype that is designed to shield the entities from criticism. The book draws from science fiction, dramaturgical, ethical, and legal literatures as well as current research agendas of corporations. Engineers, implementers, and researchers have often encountered users' fears and aggressive actions against intelligent entities, especially in the wake of deaths of humans by robots and autonomous vehicles. The book is an invaluable resource for developers and researchers in the field, as well as curious readers who want to play proactive roles in shaping future technologies.

Please contact me for any questions and requests.  I welcome collaboration on these themes.
Thanks so much!
Jo Ann

Jo Ann Oravec (MA, MS, MBA, PhD)
Professor, Information Technology and Supply Chain Management, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, UW-Madison, USA
http://oravec.org/
Jo Ann Oravec wrote Good Robot Bad Robot<http://oravec.org/>
Jo Ann Oravec (MA, MS, MBA, PhD) is a full professor at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. She is also affiliated with the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies at UW-Madison.
oravec.org

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