By Teresa Heffernan Orginally published in the Halifax Examiner, May 16, 2025 Dear Minister Solomon, Congratulations on your new post as Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation. I hope you will use this position to ensure copyright laws are enforced, to stop the theft and sale of data, to protect Canadians from resource-intensive and […]
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The Social and Cultural Studies of AI and Robotics is an exciting and innovative book series that expands the debates about robotics and artificial intelligence, exploring the pressing concerns about its social and cultural impacts. From the restructuring of work to the automation of historical inequities to the concentration of wealth and power of Big
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In a fascinating new article in Glass Bead Journal, Louis Chude-Sokei (2019) begins by challenging the parallels between humans and machines that David Levy (2007) mobilizes in his controversial book Love and Sex with Robots. The parallels Levy sets up, Chude-Sokei maintains, have been “less controversial than his book’s assumptions of and possible impact on
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Just out in the Palgrave book series called Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI, edited by Teresa Heffernan, Kathleen Richardson and Cathrine Hasse: Enchanting Robots: Intimacy, Magic, and Technology by Maciej Musiał. This book argues that robots are enchanting humans (as potential intimate partners), because humans are enchanting robots (by performing magical thinking),
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