Beschreibung:
Louise Amoore examines how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society, proposing what she calls cloud ethics as a way to hold algorithms accountable by engaging with the social and technical conditions under which they emerge and operate.
Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Politics and Ethics in the Age of Algorithms 1 Part 1. Condensation 1. The Cloud Chambers: Condensed Data and Correlative Reason 29 2. The Learning Machines: Neural Networks and Regimes of Recognition 56 Part 2. Attribution 3. The Uncertain Author: Writing and Attribution 85 4. The Madness of Algorithms: Aberration and Unreasonable Acts 108 Part 3. Ethics 5. The Doubtful Algorithm: Ground Truth and Partial Accounts 133 6. The Unattributable: Strategies for a Cloud Ethics 154 Notes 173 Bibliography 197 Index 212