Hybrid Societies

This book explores how social robots and synthetic social agents will change our social systems and intersubjective relationships. It employs resources from continental philosophy, Actor-Network theory, psychoanalysis, systemic theory, and constructivist cognitive theory to develop a theory of socio-technical change.

Autorentext

Piercosma Bisconti is researcher at the Italian Interuniversity Consortium for Computer Science and is founder of the company DEXAI - Artificial Ethics, and representing Italy in the standardisation processes of AI in ISO and CEN-CENELEC. His research engages with the social and ethical implications of artificial intelligence and robotics.

Inhalt

1. Introduction to social robotics 2. Beyond subjects and objects: actors in hybrid societies 3. Beyond anthropomorphic interactions 4. A systemic theory of socio-symbolic organisations 5. A machine politics 6. The intersubjective dimension of human-robot interactions 7. Hybrid systems: a research agenda