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  2. Technology and society - Wikipedia

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    Persuasion technology: In economics, definitions or assumptions of progress or growth are often related to one or more assumptions about technology's economic influence. Challenging prevailing assumptions about technology and its usefulness has led to alternative ideas like uneconomic growth or measuring well-being .

  3. Technological determinism - Wikipedia

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    This confirms one of the major problems with "technological determinism and the resulting denial of human responsibility for change. There is a loss of human involvement that shape technology and society" (Sarah Miller). Another conflicting idea is that of technological somnambulism, a term coined by Winner in his essay "Technology as Forms of ...

  4. Existential risk from artificial intelligence - Wikipedia

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    One of the earliest authors to express serious concern that highly advanced machines might pose existential risks to humanity was the novelist Samuel Butler, who wrote in his 1863 essay Darwin among the Machines: [23]

  5. Technological singularity - Wikipedia

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    Technology forecasters and researchers disagree regarding when, or whether, human intelligence will likely be surpassed. Some argue that advances in artificial intelligence (AI) will probably result in general reasoning systems that bypass human cognitive limitations. Others believe that humans will evolve or directly modify their biology so as ...

  6. Social construction of technology - Wikipedia

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    Social construction of technology (SCOT) is a theory within the field of science and technology studies. Advocates of SCOT—that is, social constructivists—argue that technology does not determine human action, but that rather, human action shapes technology. They also argue that the ways a technology is used cannot be understood without ...

  7. Anthropology of technology - Wikipedia

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    Blacksmith at work, Nuremberg c. 1606 The anthropology of technology (AoT) is a unique, diverse, and growing field of study that bears much in common with kindred developments in the sociology and history of technology: first, a growing refusal to view the role of technology in human societies as the irreversible and predetermined consequence of a given technology's putative "inner logic"; and ...

  8. Kissinger on AI: Humanity ‘trying to wield a power it cannot ...

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    In a promotional video for the book released Tuesday, an AI-generated Kissinger said through the use of the new technology, “humanity [is] trying to wield a power which they cannot possibly ...

  9. Theories of technology - Wikipedia

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    For example, Latour (1992) [2] argues that instead of worrying whether we are making anthropomorphological the technology, and we should embrace it as inherently anthropomorphic as technology is after all made by humans, and substitutes for the actions of humans, and therefore shapes the human action.