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Good Robot, The: Why Technology Needs Feminism (Theory in the New Humanities) - Hardcover

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9781350399969: Good Robot, The: Why Technology Needs Feminism (Theory in the New Humanities)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1350399965 ISBN 13: 9781350399969
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Kerry McInerney is a research associates 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.
Eleanor Drage 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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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1350399965
ISBN 13 
9781350399969
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
224
Editor
Drage Eleanor