Title: Holding on to the Human in a Digital World
Subtitle: Concerns, Practices and Designs for Resistance and Resilience
Subject Classification:  Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Psychology  
BIC Classification: GTE, UYA, UBH
BISAC Classification: TEC052000, PHI019000, COM004000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Jan 2027
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80866-045-0
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80866-046-7

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Description

Discussions of conscience, compassion, and the human need for community, are often deprecated in conversations about technology, especially in settings with the authority to design, implement, and evaluate the systems that increasingly shape our lives. Theory and exploration of these topics is prevalent in fields of psychology and psychiatry, but insufficient at the infrastructural level being influenced by the new technologies.The famous Turing test for the diagnosis of machine intelligence has three parts: the behavior of the machine, the interpretation by the human, and how the sufficiency of human rules of judgment is constrained by the situation. When human linguistic prowess becomes constrained to precisely what a machine can understand, the human cannot diagnose machine intelligence (or use their own).

We need to better understand how we are continuously molded — our attention, identity, judgments, and possibilities reconfigured below reflective awareness — by the categories, assumptions, labels, metrics, and economic logics embedded in the code. Humans are psychologically malleable, and machines are intransigent. Even when disguised, the human-machine asymmetry is the mechanism of molding. What, then, will help people hold on to human complexity and ambiguity? And what would it mean to treat coding as a cultural, ethical, and political practice of arranging how we live? This is the domain of critical psychology for design conscience.

This volume gathers an interdisciplinary group of scholars — philosophers, technologists, psychologists, linguists, anthropologists, economists, designers — to take up questions of how coding molds selves and societies, often toward cruelty, alienation, and shallow compliance; and to put forward frameworks, practices, and designs that steward judgment, dialogue, presence, dignity, and mutual flourishing.

Holding on to the Human in a Digital World is the twelfth volume of the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series.

Biography

Editor(s):  Dr. Deborah Tatar is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, USA. Dr. Christian Matheis is Visiting Assistant Professor of Community and Justice Studies at Guilford College, USA.

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