Buddhism and Intelligent Technology
eBook - ePub

Buddhism and Intelligent Technology

Toward a More Humane Future

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Buddhism and Intelligent Technology

Toward a More Humane Future

About this book

Machine learning, big data and AI are reshaping the human experience and forcing us to develop a new ethical intelligence. Peter Hershock offers a new way to think about attention, personal presence, and ethics as intelligent technology shatters previously foundational certainties and opens entirely new spaces of opportunity.

Rather than turning exclusively to cognitive science and contemporary ethical theories, Hershock shows how classical Confucian and Socratic philosophies help to make visible what a history of choices about remaking ourselves through control biased technology has rendered invisible. But it is in Buddhist thought and practice that Hershock finds the tools for valuing and training our attention, resisting the colonization of consciousness, and engendering a more equitable and diversity-enhancing human-technology-world relationship. Focusing on who we need to be present as to avoid a future in which machines prevent us from either making or learning from our own mistakes, Hershock offers a constructive response to the unprecedented perils of intelligent technology and seamlessly blends ancient and contemporary philosophies to envision how to realize its equally unprecedented promises.

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Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781350182271
eBook ISBN
9781350182295
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Buddhism: A Philosophical Repertoire
  10. 2 Artificial Intelligence: A Brief History
  11. 3 Intelligent Technology: A Revolution in the Making
  12. 4 Total Attention Capture and Control: A Future to Avoid
  13. 5 Anticipating an Ethics of Intelligence
  14. 6 Dimensions of Ethical Agency: Confucian Conduct, Socratic Reasoning, and Buddhist Consciousness
  15. 7 Humane Becoming: Cultivating Responsive Virtuosity
  16. 8 Course Correction: A Middle Path Through Data Governance
  17. 9 Course Correction: A Middle Path Through Education
  18. Notes
  19. References
  20. Index
  21. Copyright Page

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