The Routledge Social Science Handbook of AI (Routledge International Handbooks)

387 Pages·2021·3.048 MB·English

by  Anthony Elliott (editor)

The Routledge Social Science
Handbook of AI
The Routledge Social Science Handbook of AI is a landmark volume providing students and teachers
with a comprehensive and accessible guide to the major topics and trends of research in the social
sciences of artificial intelligence (AI), as well as surveying how the digital revolution – from
supercomputers and social media to advanced automation and robotics – is transforming society,
culture, politics and economy.
The Handbook provides representative coverage of the full range of social science engagements
with the AI revolution, from employment and jobs to education and new digital skills to
automated technologies of military warfare and the future of ethics. The reference work is
introduced by editor Anthony Elliott, who addresses the question of the relationship of social
sciences to artificial intelligence, and who surveys various convergences and divergences between
contemporary social theory and the digital revolution.
The Handbook is exceptionally wide-ranging in span, covering topics all the way from AI
technologies in everyday life to single-purpose robots throughout home and work life, and from
the mainstreaming of human–machine interfaces to the latest advances in AI, such as the ability
to mimic (and improve on) many aspects of human brain function.
A unique integration of social science on the one hand and new technologies of artificial
intelligence on the other, this Handbook and offers readers new ways of understanding the rise
of AI and its associated global transformations. Written in a clear and direct style, the Handbook
will appeal to a wide undergraduate audience.
Anthony Elliott is Dean of External Engagement at the University of South Australia, where
he is Research Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Jean Monnet Centre
of Excellence and Network. He is Super-Global Professor of Sociology (Visiting) at Keio
University, Japan; Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK; Fellow of the Academy
of the Social Sciences in Australia; and, Senior Member of King’s College, Cambridge. He is
the General Editor of the Routledge Key Ideas book series and the author and editor of over
40 books, including most recently The Culture of AI: Everyday Life and the Digital Revolution
(Routledge, 2019), Reinvention, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2021) and Making Sense of AI: Our
Algorithmic World (Polity, 2021).

The Routledge Social
Science Handbook of AI
Edited by Anthony Elliott
First published 2022
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Contents
List of figures viii
List of tables ix
List of contributors x
Acknowledgements xvi
Foreword: The World in 2062, by Toby Walsh xvii
PART I
Social science approaches to artificial intelligence 1
1 The complex systems of AI: recent trajectories of social theory 3
Anthony Elliott
2 Geographies of AI 17
Thomas Birtchnell
3 Artificial intelligence and psychology 30
J. Michael Innes and Ben W. Morrison
4 AI in the age of technoscience: on the rise of data-driven AI and its
epistem-ontological foundations 58
Jutta Weber and Bianca Prietl
5 Work, employment and unemployment after AI 74
Ross Boyd
6 Affects after AI: sociological perspectives on artificial companionship 91
Michaela Pfadenhauer and Tobias Lehmann
7 Anthropology, AI and robotics 107
Joffrey Becker
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Contents
8 Ethics of artificial intelligence 122
Vincent C. Müller
9 Human–machine interaction and design methods 138
Naoko Abe
PART II
Fields of artificial intelligence in social science research 155
10 Management and organisation in the age of AI 157
Roman Batko
11 Ambivalent places of politics: the social construction
of certainties in automated mobilities and artificial intelligence 172
Sven Kesselring and Carolin Schönewolf
12 Smart environments 188
Maja De Neergaard and Malene Freudendal-Pedersen
13 Models of law and regulation for AI 199
Nicolas Petit and Jerome De Cooman
14 Artificial intelligence and cyber-security 222
Matteo E. Bonfanti, Myriam Dunn Cavelty, and Andreas Wenger
15 Lethal autonomous weapons systems 237
Frank Sauer
16 AI and worldviews in the age of computational power 251
Massimo Durante
17 Technogenarians: ageing and robotic care 266
Eric L. Hsu
18 Big data and data analytics 281
Jo Bates
19 AI, culture industries and entertainment 295
Sam Han
20 AI, robotics, medicine and health sciences 313
Norina Gasteiger and Elizabeth Broadbent
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Contents
21 AI, smart borders and migration 339
Louis Everuss
Index 357
vii
Figures
11.1 Character poles of the vehicles 180
20.1 Paro the companion robot 320
20.2 Image showing the triage and video consultation functions
on Babylon’s GP at Hand app 324
20.3 iRobi, a telehealth robot for COPD patients with RPM abilities 326
20.4 Bomy, a social home-based service robot that provides reminders
and delivers games 327
20.5 End-effector (left) and generic full-hand exoskeleton (right) 328
20.6 Virtual human, Baby X, learning animals 333
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Tables
11.1 Overview of the film material 175
13.1 Description of law and regulation model 200
13.2 Typology and examples of externalities 210
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