Results for 'james muldoon'
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Love Machines
"It's hard to imagine a timelier book right now than this."--GQ "In his urgent, humane book, sociologist James Muldoon urges us to pay more attention to our deepening emotional entanglements with AI, and how profit-hungry tech companies might exploit them."--The Guardian A captivating and uncanny journey to the frontier of human-computer interaction, exploring what happens to our relationships with each other as artificial intelligence enters our personal lives. Friends. Lovers. Therapists. '"Deathbots." AI is taking on unprecedented roles for millions of us every day - but how are these new relationships rewiring us? Beyond those who are using chatbots for everyday tasks, many are turning to them as friends, mentors and sexual and romantic partners. Some are men who are preparing to adopt children with their AI partners; others are reaching out to companies offering "deathbot" services based on a deceased loved one's text messages and voicemails; others still look to therapy bots to find treatment for their mental health issues. In Love Machines, James Muldoon examines these new forms of love, intimacy and connection, drawing on myriad interviews with users and developers from around the world - as well as psychologists, academics and chatbots themselves. As he navigates these interactions, Muldoon asks whether they might one day be a replacement for the relationships we have with each other, while also revealing how the unregulated corporations facilitating them are seeking to profit from an emerging "loneliness economy." As the line between the digital and the real becomes increasingly blurred, and in a world that feels lonelier by the day, Love Machines is a timely survey of the next generation of human-computer relationships - and how they are not only changing our relationship with technology, but with each other.
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Feeding the Machine. Hinter den Kulissen der KI-Imperien
Wer füttert die Maschinen?Wie KI entsteht. - Spannend wie ein Thriller 'Das wichtigste Buch, das im derzeitigen Fieber der KI-Publikationen geschrieben wurde.' Stephen Fry - NOMINIERT FÜR DEN DEUTSCHEN WIRTSCHAFTSBUCHPREIS 2025 KI ist keine bunte Wolke, die frei durch den Äther schwebt. Wer nur staunt, wie schnell die Programme lernen, lässt sich täuschen: Denn die KI erschafft sich nicht selbst - ihre Entwicklung beruht zum großen Teil auf prekärer Arbeit. Es sind Menschen wie Anita in Uganda, die für einen Autokonzern in einem stundenlangen Klickreigen menschliche Anzeichen für Müdigkeit kennzeichnet, während ihr selbst jede Pause verwehrt bleibt. Wie Einar, der das infrastrukturelle Machtzentrum einer gigantischen Serverfarm wartet. Oder Alex, der am KI-gesteuerten Förderband eines britischen Amazon-Logistikzentrums Produkte sortiert - im Sekundentakt. Ihre Geschichten offenbaren die Ausbeutungsstrukturen, die bis tief in unseren Alltag reichen. Für ihr Buch analysieren die renommierten Forscher des Oxford Internet Institute die bitteren neuen Arbeitswelten hinter unserer beliebten Denkmaschine und beleuchten die kolonialen Machtdynamiken eines digitalen Ökosystems, das uns zunehmend entgleitet. Denn wo der Mensch einspringt, um der KI zu helfen, bleiben Menschenrechte oft auf der Strecke. 'Wer, wie ich es tat, tatsächlich glaubt, dass es das Internet für lau gibt, der möge dieses außergewöhnliche und wichtige Buch lesen.' Brian Eno Das ist die Ironie: Dass du diese Menschen dazu bringen musst, wie eine Maschine zu arbeiten, um die Maschine dazu zu bringen, wie ein Mensch zu sein. Mark Graham
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Feeding the Machine
Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions that labour under often appalling conditions to make AI possible. Feeding the Machine presents an urgent, riveting investigation of the intricate network of organisations that maintain this exploitative system, revealing the untold truth of AI.Based on hundreds of interviews and thousands of hours of fieldwork over more than a decade, this book shows us the lives of the workers often deliberately concealed from view and the systems of power that determine their future. It shows how AI is an extraction machine that churns through ever-larger datasets and feeds off humanity's labour and collective intelligence to power its algorithms. Feeding the Machine is a call to arms against this exploitative system and details what we need to do, individually and collectively, to fight for a more just digital future.
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Feeding the Machine
For readers of Naomi Klein and Nicole Perlroth, a myth-dissolving exposé of how artificial intelligence exploits human labor, and a resounding argument for a more equitable digital future.
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Feeding the Machine
Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions that labour under often appalling conditions to make AI possible. Feeding the Machine presents an urgent, riveting investigation of the intricate network of organisations that maintain this exploitative system, revealing the untold truth of AI.Based on hundreds of interviews and thousands of hours of fieldwork over more than a decade, this book shows us the lives of the workers often deliberately concealed from view and the systems of power that determine their future. It shows how AI is an extraction machine that churns through ever-larger datasets and feeds off humanity's labour and collective intelligence to power its algorithms. Feeding the Machine is a call to arms against this exploitative system and details what we need to do, individually and collectively, to fight for a more just digital future.
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Platform Socialism
'Ground-breaking and ambitious' - Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism Whoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom. Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first century social life. Masquerading as global community builders, these companies have developed sophisticated new techniques for extracting wealth from their users. James Muldoon shows how grassroots communities and transnational social movements can take back control from Big Tech. He reframes the technology debate and proposes a host of new ideas, from the local to the international, for how we can reclaim the emancipatory possibilities of digital platforms. Drawing on sources from forgotten histories to contemporary prototypes, he proposes an alternative system and charts a roadmap for how we can get there.
€ 22,50