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We live in a world increasingly ruled by technology; we seem as governed by technology as we do by laws and regulations. Frighteningly often, the influence of technology in and on our lives goes completely unchallenged by citizens and governments. We comfort ourselves with the soothing refrain that technology has no morals and can display no prejudice, and it's only the users of technology who distort certain aspects of it. But is this statement actually true? Dr Robert Smith thinks it is dangerously untrue in the modern era. Having worked in the field of artificial intelligence for over 30 years, Smith reveals the mounting evidence that the mechanical actors in our lives do indeed have, or at least express, morals: they're just not the morals of the progressive modern society that we imagined we were moving towards. Instead, as we are just beginning to see - in the US elections and Brexit to name but a few - there are increasing incidences of machine bigotry, greed and the crass manipulation of our basest instincts. It is easy to assume that these are the result of programmer prejudices or the product of dark forces manipulating the masses through the network of the Internet. But

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Author

Smith, Robert E. (Robert Elliott), 1963- author

Publisher

London ; New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472963888

Category

science

Subjects

Sociology, Computer Science, Social_sciences

Rating

4.5 / 5 (60 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14