Endorsement
In The Death Algorithm, Simanowski offers a series of learned and conversational meditations on troubling technologies, ranging from addictive social networking to a new phrenology that claims to predict people's criminality and intelligence from their facial features. Steeped in philosophical insight, it both grounds and transcends today's debates on regulation of artificial intelligence by articulating basic prerequisites for the preservation of human dignity in an era of rapid technological advance. This is engaged scholarship that demonstrates the enduring importance of humanistic inquiry in societies ever more granularly shaped via systems of algorithmic control.
Frank Pasquale, University of Maryland Carey School of Law
From the Publisher
In The Death Algorithm, Simanowski offers a series of learned and conversational meditations on troubling technologies, ranging from addictive social networking to a new phrenology that claims to predict people's criminality and intelligence from their facial features. Steeped in philosophical insight, it both grounds and transcends today's debates on regulation of artificial intelligence by articulating basic prerequisites for the preservation of human dignity in an era of rapid technological advance. This is engaged scholarship that demonstrates the enduring importance of humanistic inquiry in societies ever more granularly shaped via systems of algorithmic control.
Frank Pasquale, University of Maryland Carey School of Law