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Generative Hate

Toxic Cultures and Harmful AI Images

by Luke Munn, Meg Thomas, Kunal Chand ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
Venturing under the hood and across platform ecosystems, this book demonstrates how text-to-image models offer a new playground for racism, misogyny, and xenophobia. From photorealistic bigotry to algorithmic caricatures, cutting-edge AI tools are not just reproducing hate but remaking it in novel ways. Drawing together a technical understanding of AI systems and a deep familiarity with both hate ... Read more

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Venturing under the hood and across platform ecosystems, this book demonstrates how text-to-image models offer a new playground for racism, misogyny, and xenophobia. From photorealistic bigotry to algorithmic caricatures, cutting-edge AI tools are not just reproducing hate but remaking it in novel ways. Drawing together a technical understanding of AI systems and a deep familiarity with both hate
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Why We Fear AI

On the Interpretation of Nightmares

by Hagen Blix, Ingeborg Glimmer ...

Fears about AI tell us more about capitalism today than technology in the future.Will AI come and take all our jobs? Will it dominate humanity, hack the foundations of our civilization, or even wipe humans of the face of the planet? All kinds of people seem to think so. From academics to billionaires, artists to fraudsters, journalists to the pope, AI nightmares have gripped the popular ... Read more

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Fears about AI tell us more about capitalism today than technology in the future.Will AI come and take all our jobs? Will it dominate humanity, hack the foundations of our civilization, or even wipe humans of the face of the planet? All kinds of people seem to think so. From academics to billionaires, artists to fraudsters, journalists to the pope, AI nightmares have gripped the popular
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Generative Artificial Intelligence

What Everyone Needs to Know®

by Jerry Kaplan ...

Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
"AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended." - Francis Fukuyama, Political scientist and author of The End of History and the Last Man Advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) have created a new class of computer systems that exhibit astonishing proficiency on a wide variety of tasks with superhuman ... Read more

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"AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended." - Francis Fukuyama, Political scientist and author of The End of History and the Last Man Advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) have created a new class of computer systems that exhibit astonishing proficiency on a wide variety of tasks with superhuman
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Raising AI

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From the pioneer of translation AIs like Google, Yahoo, and Bing translate, an accessible and authoritative guide to AI—as well as a framework of empowerment for a future with our artificial children.Included in J.P. Morgan's Summer Reading ListIncluded in The Next Big Idea Club’s June 2025 Must-Read BooksAIs are not gods or slaves, but our children. All day long, your YouTube AI, your Reddit AI, ... Read more

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From the pioneer of translation AIs like Google, Yahoo, and Bing translate, an accessible and authoritative guide to AI—as well as a framework of empowerment for a future with our artificial children.Included in J.P. Morgan's Summer Reading ListIncluded in The Next Big Idea Club’s June 2025 Must-Read BooksAIs are not gods or slaves, but our children. All day long, your YouTube AI, your Reddit AI,
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Writing Academic Papers in English

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There are many manuals to help students write, but few deal with academic writing at the graduate or high-undergraduate level, and still fewer which address the particular needs of nonnative users of English. This book explains how to better plan, research, write, and edit an argument seminar paper, thesis/dissertation, or postgraduate scholarly publication in MLA, APA, or IEEE format. While it is ... Read more

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There are many manuals to help students write, but few deal with academic writing at the graduate or high-undergraduate level, and still fewer which address the particular needs of nonnative users of English. This book explains how to better plan, research, write, and edit an argument seminar paper, thesis/dissertation, or postgraduate scholarly publication in MLA, APA, or IEEE format. While it is
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Robot Ethics 2.0

From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence

Edited by Patrick Lin, Keith Abney, Ryan Jenkins ...

The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical. This makes it all the more urgent to study their ethical, legal, and policy impacts. To help the ... Read more

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The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical. This makes it all the more urgent to study their ethical, legal, and policy impacts. To help the
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Sad by Design

On Platform Nihilism

by Geert Lovink ...

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Sadness is now a design problem. The highs and lows of melancholy are coded into social media platforms. After all the clicking, browsing, swiping and liking, all we are left with is the flat and empty aftermath of time lost to the app.Sad by Design offers a critical analysis of the growing social media controversies such as fake news, toxic viral memes and online addiction. The failed search for ... Read more

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The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

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A Web of Our Own Making

The Nature of Digital Formation

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There no longer seems any point to criticizing the internet. We indulge in the latest doom-mongering about the evils of social media-on social media. We scroll through routine complaints about the deterioration of our attention spans. We resign ourselves to hating the internet even as we spend much of our waking lives with it. Yet our unthinking surrender to its effects-to the ways it recasts our ... Read more

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There no longer seems any point to criticizing the internet. We indulge in the latest doom-mongering about the evils of social media-on social media. We scroll through routine complaints about the deterioration of our attention spans. We resign ourselves to hating the internet even as we spend much of our waking lives with it. Yet our unthinking surrender to its effects-to the ways it recasts our
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Disabling Intelligences

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This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people. Why are the negative consequences of so-called AI so consistently directed at disabled and racialized people? Disabling Intelligences answers this question by detailing the ongoing effects of the eugenicist mindset on our corporate ventures and our interpersonal relationships. It ... Read more

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This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people. Why are the negative consequences of so-called AI so consistently directed at disabled and racialized people? Disabling Intelligences answers this question by detailing the ongoing effects of the eugenicist mindset on our corporate ventures and our interpersonal relationships. It
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The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI

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Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media.Media Life is a primer on how we may think of our lives as lived in rather than with media. The book uses the way media function today as a ... Read more

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