The current wave of automation, spurred by developments in artificial intelligence (AI), has
been described as the second machine age (Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2014) and the fourth …

“After many false starts,” declared the Economist magazine in a June 2016 Special Report, 1
“artificial intelligence (AI) has taken off.” This special report examined “how AI, associated …

Everyday life is increasingly automated with the use of new and emerging digital
technologies and systems. Discussion of these automated technologies is often shrouded …

Much has been speculated about intelligent artefacts and their potential abilities to automate
entire industries or at least a broad variety of human-related tasks and processes. Recent …

230 Jathan Sadowski were just two containers, one for the food and one for preloaded
excrement.(Strangely, the Digesting Duck and the Mechanical Turk were both destroyed by …

This article discusses the cyclical nature of automation anxiety and examines ways of
thinking about the recurrence of automation debates in culture, particularly with reference to …

Picture a greyish ofce space with rows of desks cluttered with piles of paper and seemingly
identical computer screens. Each desk is populated with a creature that brings back …

1.1 Myths and Realities Artificial intelligence (AI) was a cultural phenomenon long before it
was a technological one. In some cultures, visions of intelligent machines go back centuries …

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Preface 2020–2021 was a weird time to transform a dissertation into a book. The uprising of
Black Lives Matter and the COVID-19 pandemic are only two factors that made the …