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The Good Robot
Why Technology Needs Feminism
Series: Theory in the New Humanities
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What is good technology? Is ‘good’ technology even possible? And how can feminism help us work towards it? The Good Robot addresses these crucial questions through the voices of leading feminist thinkers, activists, and technologists. Each thinker provides a snapshot of key challenges, questions, and provocations...
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What is good technology? Is ‘good’ technology even possible? And how can feminism help us work towards it?
The Good Robot addresses these crucial questions through the voices of leading feminist thinkers, activists, and technologists. Each thinker provides a snapshot of key challenges, questions, and provocations in the field of feminism and technology.
While the question of whether various AI and technological advances can be ethical is not new, the embedded nature of feminist perspectives pulls out whether this perceived ‘goodness’ or ‘wrongness’ might actually impact our lives in the 21st century. This book explores both the radical possibilities of technology to disrupt practices of patriarchy, colonialism, racism, and beyond but also provides a significant critique of how we can contain the ethical possibilities of entities we cannot predict.
In exploring unjust technological practices and engaging critical voices in the tech industry, the existing moral issues are brought to light as well as the possible ethical quagmires.
This book opens a new space of discussion on digital technologies—one that insists that the future of AI is an urgent feminist issue.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781350399952
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 February 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Illustration: 46 bw illus
Contributors:
- Edited by Eleanor Drage
- Edited by Kerry McInerney
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 340g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Eleanor Drage is a Senior Researcher at the University of Cambridge, UK, where she uses feminist and anti-racist ideas to prevent and contest harmful uses of AI and improve AI providers' engagement with the EU AI act. She is co-host of The Good Robot podcast.
Kerry McInerney is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, UK and one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ 2022. She is co-host of the podcast The Good Robot and contributor to The Guilty Feminist project.
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