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A deep look into the multifaceted landscape of artificial intelligence, considering AI’s ethical and societal implications and celebrating its diverse and innovative applications. In this edited collection As the global AI market burgeons, this book enables collaboration, knowledge sharing, and interdisciplinary dialogue. It caters not only to the practitioners shaping the AI landscape but also to policymakers striving to navigate the intricate relationship between humans and machines, as well as academics. Divided into two parts, the first half of the book offers readers a comprehensive understanding of AI''s historical context, its influence on power dynamics, human-AI interaction, and the critical role of audits in governing AI systems. The second half unfolds a series of eight case studies, unraveling AI’s impact on fields as varied as healthcare, vehicular safety, conservation, human rights, and the metaverse. Each chapter in this book paints a vivid picture of AI’s triumphs and challenges, providing a panoramic view of how it is reshaping our world.
List of contents
Preface
1 The Birth and Rebirth of AI
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
2 Automatic Authorities: Power and AI
Seth Lazar
3 Humans and Machines Joining Forces
Mica R. Endsley
4 AI Audits: Who, When, How. . . or Even If?
Evan Selinger, Brenda Leong, and Albert Fox Cahn
5 Beyond Human Aesthetics: Machine Hallucinations
Refik Anadol and Pelin Kivrak
6 Seeing the Unseen World: Modern Slavery, Machine Learning, and AI
Todd Landman, Doreen Boyd, Zoe Trodd, and James Goulding
7 ElephantBook: Participatory Human–AI Elephant Population Monitoring
Peter Kulits, Jake Wall, and Sara Beery
8 Unlocking the Potential of Natural Language Processing in Decoding Medical Device Adverse Events
Qiang Kou and Michelle Wu
9 Omniscience with AI for Better Safety–A Case Study in the Automotive
Pengyuan Zhou, Lin Wang, and Lik-Hang Lee
10 When Artificial Intelligence Meets the Metaverse: An AI-Fueled Immersive Cyberspace
Lik-Hang Lee, Tristan Braud, and Pengyuan Zhou
11 Brain-Computer Interfaces
David Valeriani
12 AI in Warfighting
Retd. Col David Barnes
13 Concluding Remarks–Navigating the Path Ahead
Contributors
Index
