Mundanely miraculous

Su, Norman Makoto; Liu, Leslie S.; Lazar, Amanda

doi:10.1145/2639189.2641216

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“…This focus on future visions, conversely, says much about the present-"how problems of today are perceived, framed, and understood [9]." Our analytic approach is thus informed by approaches like those of Su et al [50] and Harmon and Bopp [23].…”

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Feeding the World with Data

Steup

Dombrowski

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Recent years have seen increased investment in data-driven farming through the use of sensors (hardware), algorithms (software), and networking technologies to guide decision making. By analyzing the discourse of 34 startup company websites, we identify four future visions promoted by datadriven farming startups: the vigilant farmer who controls all aspects of her farm through data; the efficient farmer who has optimized his farm operations to be profitable and sustainable; the enlightened farmer who achieves harmony with nature via data-driven insights; and the empowered farmer who asserts ownership of her farm's data, and uses it to benefit herself and her fellow farmers. We describe each of these visions and how startups propose to achieve them. We then consider some consequences of these visions; in particular, how they might affect power relations between the farmer and other stakeholders in agriculture-farm workers, nonhumans, and the technology providers themselves.

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Feeding the World with Data

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Dombrowski

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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“…In that sense, they can be efficient colleagues. A good example is robotics used in hospital settings, which ranges from telemedicine robots, to transport robots, AI diagnosing systems, companion robots, and lifting robots (Kontzer 2016;Ljungblad et al 2012;Su et al 2014). Such hospital robots can be very helpful in achieving the desired outcomes and goals.…”

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Can a Robot Be a (Good) Colleague?

Nyholm¹

2023

AI and the Future of Creative Work

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This paper discusses the robotization of the workplace, and particularly the question of whether robots can be good colleagues. This might appear to be a strange question at first glance, but it is worth asking for two reasons. Firstly, some people already treat robots they work alongside as if the robots are valuable colleagues. It is worth reflecting on whether such people (e.g. soldiers giving "fallen" military robots military funerals and medals of honor) are making a mistake. Secondly, having good colleagues is widely regarded as a key aspect of what can make work meaningful. In discussing whether robots can be good colleagues, the paper compares that question to the more widely discussed questions of whether robots can be our friends or romantic partners. The paper argues that the ideal of being a good colleague has many different parts, and that on a behavioral level, robots can live up to many of the criteria typically associated with being a good colleague. Moreover, the paper also argues that in comparison with the more demanding ideals of being a good friend or a good romantic partner, it is comparatively easier for a robot to live up to the ideal of being a good colleague. The reason for this is that the "inner lives" of our friends and lovers are more important to us than the inner lives of our colleagues.

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“Machinery Rationality” Versus Human Emotions: Issues of Robot Care for the Elderly in Recent Sci-Fi Works

Cheng

2018

Intelligence Science II

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In recent years, the phenomenon that robots are used for elderly care in our daily life has drawn attention of the public and the media. It emerges as a new attempt to solve the issue of how to provide for the aged after their retirement. Since 2012, this phenomenon has become the subject of the Sci-Fi movies and TV-play series. In those Sci-Fi works, however, the traditional dystopian human-robot conflicts are partly replaced by the prospect of human-robot co-existence. The robots here launch five ethical challenges: the issues of safety versus privacy, human-robot duality, machinery rationality versus human emotions, affective interaction, and the ethical responsibility for the elderly in the humanrobot interaction. This essay scrutinizes the phenomenon of the elderly-care Robots in three recent Sci-Fi movies/TV series, with a focus on the theme of the machinery rationality versus human emotions. In the human-robot interaction, human emotion, which makes us who we are, has been magnified with the perfectly designed robot rationality as a frame of reference. Thus the discussion of the ethical tension and conflict involved within these two typical groups would be particularly imminent and significant.

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Mundanely miraculous

Cited by 19 publications

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Feeding the World with Data

Feeding the World with Data

Can a Robot Be a (Good) Colleague?

“Machinery Rationality” Versus Human Emotions: Issues of Robot Care for the Elderly in Recent Sci-Fi Works

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