Digital Dreams Have Become Nightmares: What We Must Do/ Ronald M. Baecker, Jonathan Grudin

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baecker, Ronald M., author.

Series:

ACM books - Collection 3 ; #56.

ACM books, 2374-6777 ; #56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital Dreams Have Become Nightmares: What We Must Do(Computer Science).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 PDF (xxxii, 330pages) LuaTEX

Edition:

Second Edition

Place of Publication:

[New York, NY, USA] : Association for Computing Machinery; [2024].

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader

Contents:

Preface

Notes

1 Knowledge and Creativity

1.1 Computers as Aids to Thought

1.2 Human Factors and Human-Machine Systems

1.3 Computers for Everyone

1.4 The Internet and the World Wide Web

1.5 Digital Libraries

1.6 Computer-based Learning

1.7 New Forms of Creativity

2 Health and Medicine

2.1 Electronic Medical Records

2.2 Online Health Information

2.3 The Remote Delivery of Health Care

2.4 Digital Genetics

2.5 2.5 Technology for Seniors' Welfare and Care

3 Communications, Community, and Commerce

3.1 Free Speech

3.2 Internet Communications

3.3 Online Collaboration

3.4 Virtual Communities

3.5 E-commerce

3.6 The Gig Economy

4 Power and Convenience

4.1 Mastering Software

4.2 Gaussian Process

4.3 Artificial Intelligence

5 Disinformation and Hate Speech

5.1 Free Speech on the Internet Turns Toxic

5.2 Political Disinformation

5.3 Photographic Disinformation

5.4 Health Disinformation

6 Work, Automation, and Job Loss

6.1 Seeking Work

6.2 Monitoring Work

6.3 Disruptions to Industries

6.4 Automation and Jobs

6.5 The Future of Automation

7 Abusing Market Dominance

7.1 Digital Market Dominance in the 20th Century

7.2 Big Tech in the 21st Century

7.3 Big Tech Becomes Bigger

8 Helplessness and Injustice

8.1 Technology Timidity and Fear

8.2 Technology Addiction

8.3 Dangers in Internet Use

8.4 Inequities in Technology Availability and Use

8.5 Government Interference in Internet Use

9 Loss of Privacy

9.1 Privacy is a Complex Idea

9.2 Personal Data No Longer Under Our Control

9.3 Privacy Invasions by Government

9.4 Privacy Invasions by Business

9.5 Scary New Technologies for Surveillance

9.6 Your Personal Data Can Haunt You Forever

10 Poor Security and Safety

10.1 Financial Fraud on the Internet

10.2 Digital Technology Can Have Deadly Bugs

10.3 Cyberterrorism

11 Risky Artificial Intelligence

11.1 AI Has Gone Mainstream

11.2 Honesty

11.3 Accuracy and Reliability

11.4 Transparency and Explainability

11.5 Fairness and Justice

11.6 Responsibility and Accountability

11.7 Trust

12 Pursue Your Career Ethically

12.1 Computer Science for Good

12.2 Keeping Good Work on a Good Track

12.3 Responses to Disinformation and Hate Speech

12.4 Achieving Usable and Accessible Technology

12.5 Ethical Turning Points in Your Career

13 Support Constructive Citizen Initiatives

13.1 The Education of Computer Scientists

13.2 A Responsible Computer Science Profession

13.3 Technological Literacy, Self-Confidence, and Good Judgment

13.4 Tech Addiction

13.5 Community and Societal Initiatives

14 Help Guide Legislation and Regulation

14.1 Digital Technologists and Political Action

14.2 Legislation for Wise Tech Governance

14.3 Governmental Regulation of Technology Firms

14.4 Big Tech, Competition, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

14.5 Governmental Initiatives with Respect to Automation and Jobs

15 Promote Caution about Using AI Prematurely

15.1 Care in Introducing Consequential AI

15.2 Honesty

15.3 Accuracy and Reliability

15.4 Transparency and Explainability

15.5 Fairness and Justice

15.6 Responsibility and Accountability

15.7 Trust

Epilogue

Appendix A Further Reading

Appendix B The History of Digital

Appendix C A Perspective from Sociology

Note

Appendix D A Primer on Governance

Appendix E A Primer on Ethics

About the Author and the Collaborator

Index

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Print version:

ISBN:

3640479

9798400717710

9798400717697

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