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1st ed. |
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1 online resource (296 pages) |
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1. A Map to this Book 2. Applications and Effects of Synthetic Technologies 3. Under the Hood: Architecture and Design of Synthetic Technologies 4. Societal Challenges 5. Law 6. Uneasy Questions and Imperfect Solutions |
| Summary |
<B>Experts predict that in 5 years' time, more than 90% of all digital content will be wholly or partially AI generated. In a synthetic society, it may no longer be possible to establish what is real and what is not. Central to this open access book are 4 technologies on the frontline of this trend: humanoid robots, deepfakes, augmented reality, and virtual reality.</b> Although they are only in their relative infancy, these technologies can already produce content that is indistinguishable from authentic material. The impact of this new reality on democracy, the judicial system, the functioning of the press, as well as on personal relationships will be unprecedented. Van der Sloot describes the technological fundaments of each of those technologies and maps their positive uses for educational purposes as well as for the treatment of patients, for the entertainment and creative industries, and the retail and financial sectors. The book also conceptualises their negative uses for fraud, deception, exploitation, identity-theft and exploitation, and shows their deeper effects on the post-truth society, the privatisation of the public sphere, and the loss of individual autonomy and societal trust. The book evaluates how the current European legal paradigm applies to these technologies, focussing on the right to privacy and data protection, freedom of expression, procedural law, tort law, and the regulation of AI. It discusses regulatory alternatives to solve existing regulatory gaps and shows that there are no easy answers. <i>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.</i> |
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Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily |
| Local Note |
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
| Subject |
Artificial intelligence -- Law and legislation.
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Artificial intelligence -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Europe.
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IT & Communications law.
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| Other Form: |
Original 1509974946 9781509974948 1509974938 9781509974931 (OCoLC)1410456719 |
| ISBN |
9781509974979 (online) |
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1509974970 |
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9781509974931 (paperback) |
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9781509974948 (hardback) |
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9781509974955 (epub) |
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9781509974962 (PDF) |
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1509974946 |
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1509974938 |
| Standard No. |
10.5040/9781509974979 doi |
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