Good Robot, Bad Robot: Dark and Creepy Sides of Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and AI

The book explores the dark sides of robotics and AI, including negativity and anxiety, and examines efforts to make interactions more humanlike. It analyzes resistances against AI applications and unpacks ethical and social influences. It draws from science fiction, dramaturgical, ethical, and legal literatures and current research agendas of corporations.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 283 pages
Publication date: 02 October 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

Robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to enhance human lives, but they also have unsettling "dark sides." This book explores the expanding forms of negativity and anxiety about robots, AI, and autonomous vehicles as our human environments are reengineered for intelligent military and security systems and for optimal workplace and domestic operations. It focuses on the impacts of initiatives to make robot interactions more humanlike and less creepy, as well as the emerging resistances against these entities in the wake of omnipresent AI applications. It unpacks efforts by developers to have ethical and social influences on robotics and AI, and confronts the AI hype that is designed to shield the entities from criticism. The book draws from science fiction, dramaturgical, ethical, and legal literatures as well as current research agendas of corporations. Engineers, implementers, and researchers have often encountered users' fears and aggressive actions against intelligent entities, especially in the wake of deaths of humans by robots and autonomous vehicles. This book is an invaluable resource for developers and researchers in the field, as well as curious readers who want to play proactive roles in shaping future technologies.

Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031140150
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022