Deceitful Media - Artificial Intelligence and Social Life After the Turing Test

Integrating media studies, science and technology studies, and social psychology, Deceitful Media examines the rise of artificial intelligence throughout history and exposes the very human fallacies behind this technology.

About the author

Simone Natale, Associate Professor in Media Theory and History, University of Turin

Simone Natale is Associate Professor in media theory and history at the University of Turin, Italy; Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Circuits of Practice project at Loughborough University, UK; and Assistant Editor of Media, Culture and Society. He has been awarded fellowships and grants by organizations including the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK, the Humboldt Foundation in Germany, and Columbia University's Italian Academy in the US.

Summary

Integrating media studies, science and technology studies, and social psychology, Deceitful Media examines the rise of artificial intelligence throughout history and exposes the very human fallacies behind this technology.

Additional text

A remarkable critical history of the artifice central to artificial intelligence. Natale has peered beyond the scandalously uncanny valleys, the many muddily mediated human-machine thought experiments, and scurrilous bids for grants and investor capital to uncover the dark heart of artificial intelligence: namely, the everyday ordinary ways that 'banal deception' is integrated into our lives. In so doing, Deceitful Media offers pressingly ethical, sober, and sophisticated pathways to reclaiming the unnatural ordinariness of the human psyche in the shadow of artificial intelligence. Highly readable and deeply instructive.

Product details

• Authors: Simone Natale, Simone (Associate Professor in Media Theor Natale
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780190080365
• ISBN: 978-0-19-008036-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Artificial Intelligence, SCIENCE / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Human-Computer Interaction, Communication Studies, History of engineering and technology, Impact of science & technology on society, History of engineering & technology, Impact of science and technology on society, Human–computer interaction