An Anthropology of Robots and AI: Annihilation Anxiety and Machines
- Submitting institution
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De Montfort University
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 11196
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315736426
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- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138831742
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Based on original ethnographic fieldwork at MIT. Charted rise of social AI and robots (now taking off). Provides a critical framework for making sense of robots and AI and interconnections with politics and economic systems. Led to keynote invitation of Australian Anthropological Association 2018. Led to invitation to Aahus University (Copenhangen) to present my work and present a keynote at Robophilosophy 2016 – along with the creation of a consortium. Was among first anthropologists to study the making of robots, and challenge postmodern narratives. Led to new work on robots, autism and attachment theory, which led to sex robot work.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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