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Rage Inside the Machine - The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All (Paperback)
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Rage Inside the Machine - The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All (Paperback)
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Shortlisted for the 2020 Business Book Awards 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 what if there is something more fundamental and
explicitly mechanical at play, something inherent within technology
itself? This book demonstrates how non-scientific ideas have been
encoded deep into our technological infrastructure. Offering a
rigorous, fresh perspective on how technology has brought us to
this place, Rage Inside the Machine challenges the long-held
assumption that technology is an apolitical and amoral force.
Shedding light on little-known historical stories and investigating
the complex connections between scientific philosophy,
institutional prejudice and new technology, this book offers a new,
honest and more truly scientific vision of ourselves.
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