Louise Amoore

Cloud Ethics

Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others

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Produktbeschreibung

Louise Amoore examines how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society, proposing what she calls cloud ethics as a way to hold algorithms accountable by engaging with the social and technical conditions under which they emerge and operate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781478007784
• ISBN-10: 1478007788
• Artikelnr.: 57477411

Autorenporträt

Louise Amoore is Professor of Political Geography at Durham University and author of The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security beyond Probability , also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Politics and Ethics in the Age of Algorithms  1
Part 1. Condensation
1. The Cloud Chambers: Condensed Data and Correlative Reason  29
2. The Learning Machines: Neural Networks and Regimes of Recognition  56
Part 2. Attribution
3. The Uncertain Author: Writing and Attribution  85
4. The Madness of Algorithms: Aberration and Unreasonable Acts  108
Part 3. Ethics
5. The Doubtful Algorithm: Ground Truth and Partial Accounts  133
6. The Unattributable: Strategies for a Cloud Ethics  154
Notes  173
Bibliography  197
Index  212