Singular Creatures : Robots, Rights, and the Politics of Posthumanism by Mark...

Singular CreaturesRobots, Rights, and the Politics of Posthumanism\nAuthor(s): Mark Kingwell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228014348, 978-0228014348\nSynopsis\nAnxiety about non-human intelligent machines is a longstanding theme of cultural production and consumption. Examples range from tales of golems and Frankensteins monster to the evil overlord scenarios of contemporary film and television franchises: Star Trek, the Alien series, and the Terminator sequence, as well as Her, Black Mirror, Blade Runner, Ex Machina, and many other less mainstream cultural artifacts. \n\nThe source of this anxiety is clear. Non-human conscious entities may turn out to be superior to any biological form of life, allowing a stride across human ambition in a moment dubbed the Singularity by AI insiders. This is the turning point when non-human entities advance and reproduce in a manner that surpasses and sub.