Good Robot, Bad Robot

Dark and Creepy Sides of Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and AI

Jo Ann Oravec (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 283 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-14012-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Jo Ann Oravec (MA, MS, MBA, PhD) is a full professor in the College of Business and Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (Department of Information Technology and Supply Chain Management), as well as the Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies, UW-Madison. Her publications include Virtual Individuals, Virtual Groups. She was the first chair of the Privacy Council of the State of Wisconsin.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Some Dramaturgical and Ethical Approaches to the Dark Side.- Chapter 2. Negative Dimensions of Human-Robot and Human-AI Interactions: Frightening Legacies, Emerging Dysfunctions, and Creepiness.- Chapter 3. Love, Sex, & Robots: Sex Robots, Privacy, and Robot Addiction.- Chapter 4. The Long Robotic Arm of the Law: Emerging Police, Military, Militia, Security, and Other Compulsory Robots.- Chapter 5. Gilding Artificial Lilies: Artificial Intelligence's Legacies of Technological Overstatement, Embellishment, and Hyperbole.- Chapter 6. "Our Hearts Go Out to the Victim's Family": Death by Robot and Autonomous Vehicle.- Chapter 7. Robo-Rage Against the Machine: Abuse, Sabotage, and Bullying of Robots and Autonomous Vehicles.- Chapter 8. The Future of Embodied AI: Containing and Mitigating the Dark and Creepy Sides of Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and AI.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI
Zusatzinfo	X, 283 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	514 g
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Aggression • Anthropomorphism • Anxiety • Artificial Intelligence • Asimov • Autonomous Systems • Control • Death • ethics • high tech corporations • legal liability • Mortality • personal autonomy • privacy • Professional responsibility • Public Opinion • robots • Science Fiction • Self-driving vehicles • social robotics
ISBN-10	3-031-14012-5 / 3031140125
ISBN-13	978-3-031-14012-9 / 9783031140129
Zustand	Neuware