In Extinction and the Human Timothy Sweet ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment and the often divergent Native American and Euro-American narratives that surround them, focusing especially on the force of human impact on megafauna—mammoths, whales, and the North American bison.
Imperfect Oracle is about both the promise and limits of artificial intelligence. The promise is that in important ways AI is a lot better than we are at making judgments, while its limits are evidenced by the fact that AI cannot always make accurate predictions—not today, not tomorrow, and not the day after, either.
By analyzing ethnographic interviews with the youth of Aotearoa/New Zealand, Susanna Trnka reveals the emotional, financial, and deeply personal ideas at stake as understandings of health shift in the minds of young people, who are often at the vanguard of new trends in mental health, physical fitness, and digital health technologies.
Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge explores paradoxes of technology over two centuries to underscore why things so often turn out—for worse but also for better—so differently from futurists’ forecasts. By celebrating the complexity of reality, it counters the cycles of utopianism and doomsaying so often provoked by technological change.
Lingua Ex Machina investigates the role communication technologies played in shaping the reemergence of modern Hebrew speech, arguing that technologies such as the phonograph, typewriter, and telegraph—whose development paralleled the revitalization of Hebrew—were an active force in shaping the language as a modern medium of communication.
Edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, William Kearney and Anne-Marie Mazza
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512827484
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
From nuclear energy to recombinant DNA, the scientific community developed practices to increase adherence to its norms. This volume explores the state of AI, draws lessons from the ways in which previous technologies were developed and deployed, catalogs efforts to govern AI, and suggests methods for science to harness AI’s potential responsibly.
