The Dangers of Mystifying Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
From the outset, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has been steeped in myth and magic, distracting us from the real threat of this technology. Promising miracles, Big Tech has amassed wealth and power by colonizing and privatizing the material world and restructuring labour. From the erosion...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto journal of theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Pages: 93-95 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CF Christianity and Science NCJ Ethics of science |
| Further subjects: | B
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B church of AI B Artificial Intelligence B Norbert Wiener B Gershom Scholem |
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| Summary: | From the outset, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has been steeped in myth and magic, distracting us from the real threat of this technology. Promising miracles, Big Tech has amassed wealth and power by colonizing and privatizing the material world and restructuring labour. From the erosion of democracy, to data theft, to invasive surveillance, to the automation of bias, to tax- evasion, the world run by corporate-owned machines is proving to be anything but “magical.” |
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| ISSN: | 1918-6371 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Toronto journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/tjt-2020-0029 |