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We live in an age of artificial intelligence. Machines think and act in ever more complex ways, making suggestions and decisions on our behalf. While AI might be seen as practical and profitable, issues of data surveillance, algorithmic control, and sexist and racist bias persist. In this rapidly changing landscape, social analysis of AI risks getting scaled down to issues of 'ethics', 'responsibility', and 'fairness'. While these are important issues, they must be addressed not from an 'AI first' perspective, but more thoroughly in terms of power and contention.Approaching artificial intelligence from the often overlooked perspective of critical social theory, this book provides a much-needed intervention on how both old and new theories conceptualize the social consequences of AI. Questions are posed about the ideologies driving AI, the mythologies surrounding AI, and the complex relationship between AI and power. Simon Lindgren provides a way of defining AI as an object of social and political critique, and guides the reader through a set of contentious areas where AI and politics intersect. In relation to these topics, critical theories are drawn upon, both as an argument for and an illustration of how AI can be critiqued.Given the opportunities and challenges of AI, this book is a must-read for students and scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM disciplines.

Artificial intelligence --- Social aspects.

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EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. We tend to hold people responsible for their choices, but not for what they can't control: their nature, genes or biological makeup. This thought-provoking collection redefines the boundaries of moral responsibility. It shows how epigenetics reveals connections between our genetic make-up and our environment. The essays challenge established notions of human nature and the nature/nurture divide and suggest a shift in focus from individual to collective responsibility. Uncovering the links between our genetic makeup, environment and experiences, this is an important contribution to ongoing debates on ethics, genetics and responsibility.

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Management --- Social aspects.

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Die DDR war ein zutiefst militarisierter Staat, in dem alle gesellschaftlichen Bereiche unter das Primat der militärischen Verteidigung des Sozialismus gestellt wurden. Das zeigt der vorliegende Band, der sich der vielbesprochenen Militarisierung der DDR widmet und diese mittels einer umfassenden Analyse des gesamtstaatlichen Mobilmachungssystems systematisiert. So ist festzustellen, dass „Mobilmachung" nicht allein auf den militärischen Bereich beschränkt blieb. In Erwartung eines möglichen Krieges zwischen den Blöcken in Europa erstreckte sich dieses Vorbereitungssystem auf alle staatlichen, wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Bereiche der DDR, um diese in ständiger Bereitschaft zur Führung eines Krieges zu halten und das Territorium für Operationen des Warschauer Paktes nutzbar zu machen. Das Ergebnis war ein Dual-Use-Staat, bei dem zivile Belange stets unter der Prämisse ihrer militärischen Nutzbarkeit standen.

Imperialism --- Social aspects.

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Contagion Capitalism situates the COVID-19 pandemic within the systems of global political economy and their attendant cultural modes and theorizes that these systems act as facilitators and drivers of global pandemic risk.

Capitalism --- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 --- -Social aspects. --- Social aspects.