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Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence: Care and the Algorithms that Guide Our Lives

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • 15.2 x 22.9 x 2 cm

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Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence (AI) acknowledges that human destiny is intimately tied to artificial intelligence. AI already outperforms a person on most tasks. Our ever-deepening relationship with an AI that is increasingly autonomous mirrors our relationship to what is perceived as Sacred or Divine. Like God, AI awakens hope and fear in people, while giving life to some and taking livelihood, especially in the form of jobs, from others. AI, built around values of convenience, productivity, speed, efficiency, and cost reduction, serve humanity poorly, especially in moments that demand care and wisdom. This book explores the pastoral virtues of hope, patience, play, wisdom, and compassion as foundational to personal flourishing, communal thriving, and building a robust AI. Biases of determinism, speed, objectivity, ignorance, and apathy within AI's algorithms are identified. These biases can be minimized through the incorporation of pastoral virtues as values guiding AI.
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  • Title

    Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence: Care and the Algorithms that Guide Our Lives

  • Author

    Jaco J. Hamman

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

  • Published

    October 2022

  • Weight

    559g

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.9 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781793640451

  • ISBN-10

    1793640459

  • Eden Code

    5703675

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