Unsavory medicine for technological civilization: Introducing ‘Artificial Intelligence & its Discontents’

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Acknowledgments

Shunryu Colin Garvey would like to thank the editor of ISR, Willard McCarty, for his patience, wisdom, and support on this special issue; Alan Blackwell for reading an early draft; Ariane Hanemaayer for her close collaboration and continued dedication to the project of ‘AI & its Discontents’; and all the contributors to this issue, as well as AI discontents past, present, and future.

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Shunryu Colin Garvey

Dr. Shunryu Colin Garvey is trained in the interdisciplinary field of Science & Technology Studies (STS). He uses AI as a case study to probe decision making under the conditions of complexity, uncertainty, and disagreement, in order understand how societies can more safely, fairly, and wisely govern controversial sociotechnical systems.