The Psychoses of Artificial Intelligence - Softcover

Whittaker, Carl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3691733298 ISBN 13: 9783691733297

Publisher: Bremen University Press, 2025

Synopsis

The Psychologychoses of Artificial Intelligence - that's our tongue-in-cheek label for those moments when AI systems stop being "intelligent" and start getting... well, creative. The culprits are usually skewed data: incomplete, faulty, or riddled with bias. The result? Machines that happily hallucinate nonsense. Sometimes they just recycle old prejudices: job applications get sorted by names, loans by skin color, and the justice system suddenly looks like it's run by a digital crystal ball. Not exactly the future we were promised. Sometimes, though, things get truly dangerous: a self-driving car that mistakes a pedestrian for a plastic bag, or a medical system that confuses your appendix with your lunch sandwich. Keeping these AI mood swings in check requires brains from many fields. Researchers are developing anomaly-detection algorithms, real-time monitoring systems, and-let's be honest-something that looks suspiciously like psychiatry for machines. Carl Whittaker already laid the foundations in The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence (Bremen University Press, 2023). This new book delivers the case studies, showing why even AIs sometimes seem badly in need of therapy. 2nd edition September 2025

Edition details

• Publisher: Bremen University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3691733298
• ISBN 13: 9783691733297
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 170