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Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others


Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others

Paperback by Amoore, Louise

Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others

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ISBN:
9781478008316
Publication Date:
8 May 2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Pages:
232 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 21 - 22 May 2024
Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others

Description

In Cloud Ethics Louise Amoore examines how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society. Conceptualizing algorithms as ethicopolitical entities that are entangled with the data attributes of people, Amoore outlines how algorithms give incomplete accounts of themselves, learn through relationships with human practices, and exist in the world in ways that exceed their source code. In these ways, algorithms and their relations to people cannot be understood by simply examining their code, nor can ethics be encoded into algorithms. Instead, Amoore locates the ethical responsibility of algorithms in the conditions of partiality and opacity that haunt both human and algorithmic decisions. To this end, she proposes what she calls cloud ethics-an approach to holding algorithms accountable by engaging with the social and technical conditions under which they emerge and operate.

Contents

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

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