European University Institute Library

How to be human in the digital economy, Nicholas Agar

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

How to be human in the digital economy

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Nicholas Agar

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Taking the Long View of Digital Revolution; The Threat to Human Agency; We Should Avoid a Present Bias about Computers and a Belief in Human Exceptionalism; Forward to a Social-Digital Future; A Note on Philosophical Method; An Outline of the Book; 1. Is the Digital Revolution the Next Big Thing?; Will the Digital Revolution Fizzle?; The Magic Combination of Artificial Intelligence and Data; How AI Could Transform Transportation; How AI Could Transform Health; Concluding Comments; 2. AI's Split Personality-Minds or Mind Workers?Philosophical and Pragmatic Interests in Machine Minds: A Focus on Making Minds or on Doing Mind WorkThe Difference between Authentic and Ersatz Minds; Hyperactive Agency Detectors and Human-Like Machines; A Moral Reason to Avoid Creating Machines with Minds; Concluding Comments; 3. Data as a New Form of Wealth; How Could Data Be Wealth?; Unfairness and the New Forms of Wealth; Does Data Want to Be Free?; Do unto Facebook and Google … Micropayments for the Use of Our Data?; Concluding Comments; 4. Can Work Be a Norm for Humans in the Digital Age?Searching for Work that Is Both Productive and Therapeutic in the Digital AgeThe Inductive Optimism of the Economists; The Protean Powers of the Digital Package; Will Humans Always Control the Last Mile of Choice?; A Conjecture about the Labor Market of the Digital Age; Gaining Philosophical Perspective on the Dispute between Optimists and Pessimists; Concluding Comments; 5. Caring about the Feelings of Lovers and Baristas; What Is It Like to Love a Robot?; From Romantic to Work Relationships; What Counts as a Social Job?; Can I Justify My Pro-Human Bias?; Concluding Comments6. Features of the Social Economy in the Digital AgeTwo Economies for the Digital Age; Some Noteworthy Differences between Social and Digital Goods; The Ambiguous Digital Futures of Sales Assistants; The Different Digital Age Futures of Uber and Airbnb; Space Exploration as Social Work; Concluding Comments; 7. A Tempered Optimism about the Digital Age; The Different Logic of Predictions and Ideals; We Should Prefer Robust Ideals; The Social-Digital Economy versus the Collaborative Commons; The Social-Digital Economy versus a Jobless Future with a Universal Basic IncomeThe UBI as an Inadequate Response to Inequality in the Digital AgeAn Expanded Basic Income?; Concluding Comments; 8. Machine Breaking for the Digital Age; See through the Digital Halo Effect!; Don't Fall for Tech TINA!; If You Can Cheat an Algorithm, Then Why Not?; Work for Free for Oxfam, but Make Facebook Pay!; Don't Fight the Last War!; Concluding Comments; 9. Making a Very Human Digital Age; Welcoming a Social Age; Notes; Introduction: Taking the Long View of Digital Revolution; Chapter 1: Is the Digital Revolution the Next Big Thing?