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Author:   Teresa Heffernan
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030218386

ISBN 10:   3030218384
Pages:   187
Publication Date:   17 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.Chapter 2: Evolution Ain't Engineering: Animals, Robots, and the Messy Struggle for Existence.Chapter 3: Demystifying the Intelligent Machine.Chapter 4: Autonomy of Artificial Intelligence, Ecology and Existential Risk: A Critique.Chapter 5: Visions of Swarming Robots: Artificial Intelligence and Stupidity in the Military-Industrial Projection of the Future of Warfare.Chapter 6: The Business of Ethics, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.Chapter 7: Fiction Meets Science: Ex Machina, Artificial Intelligence and the Robotics Industry.Chapter 8: Rossum's Mimesis.Chapter 9: Race and Robotics.

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Teresa Heffernan is Professor of English at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS. Her current research is on the science and fiction of robotics and AI. Her previous books include Veiled Figures: Women, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism (2016) and Post-Apocalyptic Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel (2008).

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