

Rage Inside the Machine
The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All
Author: Robert Elliott Smith
Narrator: Sean Pratt
Unabridged: 12 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Ascent Audio
Published: 09/29/2020
Synopsis
But is this statement actually true? Dr. Robert Smith thinks it is dangerously untrue in the modern era. Having worked in the field of artificial intelligence for over thirty years, Smith reveals the mounting evidence that the mechanical actors in our lives do indeed have, or at least express, morals: they're just not the morals of the progressive modern society that we imagined we were moving towards. Instead, as we are just beginning to see—in the US elections and Brexit to name but a few—there are increasing incidences of machine bigotry, greed, and the crass manipulation of our basest instincts.
This book demonstrates how non-scientific ideas have been encoded deep into our technological infrastructure. Offering a rigorous, fresh perspective on how technology has brought us to this place, Rage Inside the Machine challenges the long-held assumption that technology is an apolitical and amoral force.