It was a welcome relief from the running endless procession of redundant “critical” takes on AI to encounter Professor David Gunkel’s essay, “Deconstruction to the Rescue”.[1] Finally, a perspective on Artificial Intelligence, Generative or otherwise, that does not smuggle through… Read More ›
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Maintaining Relations and Re-Engineering the Social: A Reply to Becker’s “The Three Problems of Robotics and AI”, Dawid Kasprowicz
In his article, Joffrey Becker (2022) gives an overview over the three main challenges for social anthropology on robotics and AI. These challenges also raise questions of different scientific fields like engineering, philosophy of technology or science-and-technology-studies. For the sake… Read More ›
Zombie Epistemology: Or, I Ain’t Gonna Work on Zoltan’s Farm, Either, Part II, William T. Lynch
Steve Fuller’s work on transhumanism is interesting because it forces us to think about the long-term trajectory of the human species and the knowledge and technology it is likely to build in the future. He is surely right that the… Read More ›
Zombie Epistemology: Or, I Ain’t Gonna Work on Zoltan’s Farm, Either, Part I, William T. Lynch
Zombie movies express for us the horror that would take place if the dead did not go away so that the living could pursue existence unimpeded by the dead hand of history. The horror is an inversion of the desire… Read More ›
Cultivating Technomoral Interrelations, Damien Williams
Author Information: Damien Williams, Virginia Tech, damienw7@vt.edu Williams, Damien. “Cultivating Technomoral Interrelations: A Review of Shannon Vallor’s Technology and the Virtues.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 2 (2018): 64-69. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-3US… Read More ›
The Politics of A.I., Robert Frodeman
Author Information: Robert Frodeman, University of North Texas, robert.frodeman@unt.edu Frodeman, Robert. “The Politics of AI.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 1 (2018): 48-49. The pdf of the article provides specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-3To New York Times columnist Thomas… Read More ›