In a story last year about nine eBooks I read about AI in 2020, I called Your Computer Is On Fire an e-book to watch this year. It went on sale this week and I wasn’t disappointed. The e-book is that techno-uttopism will have to die because it is too harmful to be able to continue. This argument has recently given the impression in the context that Amazon staff in robotics factories are injured more than staff in factories without robots. once other people reject unrealistic visions of the results, the generation’s hitale is very different.

The e-book deals with how the legacy of social structures and media narratives has shaped computer science and invites others to think critically about the purity of knowledge, the concealment of the carbon footprint represented by the cloud, the whiteness of robots and cables. The authors say their PC is on fire due to automation perpetuating racism and sexism, and the expansion of resource-using knowledge centers and the cloud at a time when climate change is a problem. existential risk to the planet.

The name of this eBook is intended to prepare you for a series of 16 provocative essays that read about the history of technology, media and politics, Siri disciplines and the cloud as a factory on how the Internet will be decolonialized and technological for the world. Each essay takes readers on an adventure through a topic to read about the long-term moral and social implications of technology, a technique advised through Margaret Mitchell, former host of the Ethical AI team, for Google.

Collaborators in the essay collection come with Algorithms of Oppression’s Safiya Noble, who has written an essay on the racial and gender stereotypes that permeate robotics and the role of robotics in police, prisons and war.

“We will have to ask ourselves what is lost, who gets injured and what with the adoption of synthetic intelligence and robotics in decision-making. We have a significant opportunity to reshape the consciousness incorporated into synthetic intelligence and robotics, because in fact it is a product of our own collective creation,” Noble wrote in the book.

Another essay, through Nathan Ensmenger, argues that the cloud is a factory and examines the extent to which knowledge centers require a lot of energy, water and the extraction of scarce mineral resources such as cobalt, leading to accusations that large generation corporations helped with the death or serious injury of children. This essay also compares Amazon online with Sears mail order catalogs a century ago, and compares Amazon’s transportation and distribution strategy with Standard Oil.

Understanding, for example, that in the past, women were a giant component of computer paintings treated as subordinate and feminine for the most part of their beginnings, is helping to get rid of persistent disorders of racism and sexism in technological environments that women: especially black women, describe them as toxic.

I also discovered something extraordinarily human in an essay that says a network is a network, which analyzes the history of giant networks built in Chile, Russia and the United States. Benjamin Peters says the story shows that the mere fact that a network works means it works as planned by its designers.

“[N] projects and paintings are twice as political as to how their designers are first asked and betrayed, and secondly, they require genuine reinforcement of much richer establishments and collaborative authenticities than any design,” Peters wrote.

The book’s editors come with Mar Hicks, a generation historian at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and assistant editor of IEEE records on the history of computer science. They are joined through the historian of science and generation and the University of California, Kavita. Philip, professor at Irvine; Peters, media historian and professor at the University of Tulsa; and Thomas Mullaney, professor of history at Stanford University.

Editors comment that the book’s conclusions are not intended to be too bleak a vision of the long term or to give others the impression that things are hopeless. There is hope, they say, but recent trends serve as an awakening. Call.

What I have also learned from this eBook is the initial price of critical analysis. In a recent paper, researchers warned that hounds persist in wondering acutely, stating, “Technological journalism is the cornerstone of just automation and being encouraged by AI. “

In the last pages of the book, Your Computer Is On Fire also discusses the role of media and storytellers in AI generation and trends.

“Technology will not keep its promises or curses, and generational observers deserve to avoid both utopian dreamers and dystopian cadastrophists. The world, in fact, is on fire, but it doesn’t explain why it is purified or devastated on the exact day. “and time predicted through the self-proclaimed prophets of profit and ruin. History will continue to surprise,” Peters writes.

Even if you’re like me and you’re attached to synthetic intelligence trends through news, e-books, and study articles, you can still be informed of parts of the generation’s history in this eBook you didn’t know, because this eBook encompasses an ark. And as editors have defined in the epilogue, they expect the messages it contains to be evident in decades.

This lens – the visualization of computing and synthetic intelligence over several decades – and taking into account the social and ancient context were followed in the past by Ruha Benjamin, who argued last year in the context of learning in intensity that “the intensity of computing without ancient or sociological intensity is superficial learning. ” But the collection of blunt technological disorders found over the decades in this e-book makes it a recommended read for anyone interested in the effect of generation policy on businesses and governments, as well as for others who implement AI or are interested in how other people shape the generation.

This ebook presents compelling arguments for topics essential to the medium of business and society. Based on computational history, he is able, as Noble said, to “emphasize how much is at stake when we don’t think more humanistically about computing. “