Cyborg Futures Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Heffernan, Teresa (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI,
• Subjects: Technology-Sociological aspects.; Artificial intelligence.; Robotics.; Automation.; Science and Technology Studies.; Artificial Intelligence.; Robotics and Automation.

This volume brings together academics from evolutionary biology, literary theory, robotics, digital culture, anthropology, sociology, and environmental studies to consider the impact of robotics and AI on society. By bringing these perspectives together in one book, readers gain a sense of the compl...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Evolution Ain't Engineering: Animals, Robots, and the Messy Struggle for Existence
• Chapter 3: Demystifying the Intelligent Machine
• Chapter 4: Autonomy of Artificial Intelligence, Ecology and Existential Risk: A Critique
• Chapter 5: Visions of Swarming Robots: Artificial Intelligence and Stupidity in the Military-Industrial Projection of the Future of Warfare
• Chapter 6: The Business of Ethics, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
• Chapter 7: Fiction Meets Science: Ex Machina, Artificial Intelligence and the Robotics Industry
• Chapter 8: Rossum's Mimesis
• Chapter 9: Race and Robotics.