Good robot, bad robot : dark and creepy sides of robotics, automated vehicles, and AI /

The 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oravec, Jo Ann (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
Series:Social and cultural studies of robots and AI
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Table of Contents:
  • Entering the second century of robotics and intelligent technologies: an opening note
  • Dramaturgical and ethical approaches to the dark side: an introduction
  • Negative dimensions of human-robot and human-AI interactions: frightening legacies, emerging dysfunctions, and creepiness
  • Love, sex, and robots: technological shaping on intimate relationships
  • The long robotic arm of the law: emerging police, military, militia, security, and other compulsory robots
  • Gilding artificial lilies: artificial intelligence's legacies of technological overstatement, embellishment, and hyperbole
  • "Our hearts go out to the victim's family": death by robot and autonomous vehicle
  • Robo-rage against the machine: abuse, sabotage, and bullying of robots and autonomous vehicles
  • The future of Embodied AI: containing and mitigating the dark and creepy sides of robotics, autonomous vehicles, and AI