Against Reduction Designing a Human Future with Machines

• Main Author: Arista, Noelani (auth)
• Other Authors: Costanza-Chock, Sasha (auth), Ghazavi, Vafa (auth), Kite, Suzanne (auth), Klusmeier, Cathryn (auth), Lewis, Jason Edward (auth), Pechawis, Archer (auth), Sawyer, Jaclyn (auth), Zhang, Gary Zhexi (auth), Zhang, Snoweria (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2021
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Machine learning; Impact of science & technology on society; Artificial intelligence; Impact of science and technology on society
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Provocative, hopeful essays imagine a future that is not reduced to algorithms. What is human flourishing in an age of machine intelligence, when many claim that the world's most complex problems can be reduced to narrow technical questions? Does more computing make us more intelligent, or simp...