Killer Apps

War, Media, Machine

Jeremy Packer, Joshua Reeves (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0657-2 (ISBN)

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Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves provide a critical account of the history and future of automation in warfare by highlighting the threats posed by the latest advances in media technology and artificial intelligence.

In Killer Apps Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves provide a detailed account of the rise of automation in warfare, showing how media systems are central to building weapons systems with artificial intelligence in order to more efficiently select and eliminate military targets. Drawing on the insights of a wide range of political and media theorists, Packer and Reeves develop a new theory for understanding how the intersection of media and military strategy drives today's AI arms race. They address the use of media to search for enemies in their analyses of the history of automated radar systems, the search for extraterrestrial life, and the development of military climate science, which treats the changing earth as an enemy. As the authors demonstrate, contemporary military strategy demands perfect communication in an evolving battlespace that is increasingly inhospitable to human frailties, necessitating humans' replacement by advanced robotics, machine intelligence, and media systems.

Jeremy Packer is Associate Professor in the Institute for Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at the University of Toronto. Joshua Reeves is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Media at Oregon State University.

Acknowledgments vii
Preface to an Inauthentic Document ix
Introduction. Event Matrix (DoD) 1
1. Identification Friend or Foe (DoD) 29
2. Centralized Control/Decentralized Execution (DoD) 48
3. Hostile Environment (DoD) 61
4. In Extremis (DoD) 89
5. Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (DoD) 109
6. Autonomous Operation (DoD) 124
7. Vital Ground (DoD) 139
8. Escalation (DoD) 159
9. Unidentified Flying Objects (USAF) 175
Conclusion. Armistice (DoD) 198
Notes 217
References 235
Index 261

Erscheinungsdatum	02.01.2020
Zusatzinfo	49 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4780-0657-9 / 1478006579
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0657-2 / 9781478006572
Zustand	Neuware