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The Good Robot
Why Technology Needs Feminism
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eBook - ePub
The Good Robot
Why Technology Needs Feminism
About this book
What is good technology? Is 'good' technology even possible? And how can feminism help us work towards it? The Good Robot addresses these crucial questions through the voices of leading feminist thinkers, activists and technologists. Each thinker provides a snapshot of key challenges, questions and provocations in the field of feminism and technology.
While the question of whether various AI and technological advances can be ethical is not new, the embedded nature of feminist perspectives pulls out whether this perceived 'goodness' or 'wrongness' might actually impact our lives in the 21st century. This book explores both the radical possibilities of technology to disrupt practices of patriarchy, colonialism, racism and beyond but also provides a significant critique of how we can contain the ethical possibilities of entities we cannot predict. In exploring unjust technological practices and engaging critical voices in the tech industry, the existing moral issues are brought to light as well as the possible ethical quagmires.
This book opens a new space of discussion on digital technologies – one that insists that the future of AI is an urgent feminist issue.
While the question of whether various AI and technological advances can be ethical is not new, the embedded nature of feminist perspectives pulls out whether this perceived 'goodness' or 'wrongness' might actually impact our lives in the 21st century. This book explores both the radical possibilities of technology to disrupt practices of patriarchy, colonialism, racism and beyond but also provides a significant critique of how we can contain the ethical possibilities of entities we cannot predict. In exploring unjust technological practices and engaging critical voices in the tech industry, the existing moral issues are brought to light as well as the possible ethical quagmires.
This book opens a new space of discussion on digital technologies – one that insists that the future of AI is an urgent feminist issue.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Dedication
- Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Good Technology Is Feminist
- Part I Good Relations
- 1 Good Technology Is Cooperative
- 2 Good Technology Is Messy
- 3 Good Technology Is Biophilic
- 4 Good Technology Is Earthly
- 5 Good Technology Is Intergenerational
- Part II Good Systems
- 6 Good Technology Is Inclusive
- 7 Good Technology Is Possible—But There Are Conditions
- 8 Good Technology Is Community-Centric
- 9 Good Technology Is Participatory
- Part III Good Design
- 10 Good Technology Is Vulnerable
- 11 Good Technology Is Slow (to Scale)
- 12 Good Technology Is Accessible, Not Just “Good Enough”
- 13 Good Technology Needs an Emergency Exit Door
- 14 Good Technology Invites Response
- Part IV Good Visions
- 15 Good Technology Is a Portal to Other Worlds
- 16 Good Technology Is/Not Asian Women
- 17 Good Technology Holds Up a Mirror to Ourselves
- 18 Good Technology Needs Good Stories
- Part V Good Rebellions
- 19 Good Technology Challenges Power
- 20 Good Technology Is Free (At Least for a Moment)
- 21 Good Technology Subverts Militarism
- 22 Good Technology Is a Fantasy
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Copyright
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