Machine Agency by James Mattingly - ISBN: 9780262549981
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Can machines act? Explore the future of AI and agency.

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    192 pages

  • Release Date

    4 March 2025

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Summary

An engaging exploration of agency that provides students with the critical tools needed to understand and participate in debates about future machines.

The great promise of artificial intelligence’s evolution lives alongside an equally great anxiety. As we develop increasingly autonomous machines that do things in the world, questions about agency—distinguishing machines that can act from those that cannot—are among the thorniest we face. A concise and probing exploration of agency, t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262549981
ISBN-10:0262549980
Author:James Mattingly, Beba Cibralic
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:4 March 2025
Weight:369g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
About The Author

James Mattingly

James Mattingly is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, author of Information and Experimental Knowledge, and editor of The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

Beba Cibralic is an Associate Fellow at Cambridge University’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and a researcher on AI at RAND Corporation.

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