[Air-L] New book announcement. Auto-correct: The fantasies and failures of AI, ethics, and the driverless car

[Maya Indira Ganesh]

Hello,

I'm happy to share that my monograph is out, *Auto-correct: The fantasies
and failures of AI, ethics, and the driverless car* (ArtEZ Press)  You can
read the first chapter online here
<https://artezpress.artez.nl/wp-content/themes/artezpress/assets/images/Auto-Correct_Chapter-1_V3.pdf>
and order a copy here <https://artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-correct/>.
 Here's more about the book:

The ‘Trolley Problem,’ a well-known thought experiment, has come to
symbolise the ‘ethics of autonomous driving’—a powerful narrative that
gained traction alongside the excitement surrounding driverless cars. While
the problem is still used in classrooms to highlight the contrasts between
utilitarian and deontological ethical frameworks in analytic philosophy, it
has also influenced our expectations of AI-driven technologies. It suggests
that ethical decision-making can be automated and data-driven, rather than
remaining a human, social, or individualised practice.

*Auto-correct *explores the language and materiality around ‘autonomy’, as
well as the cultural impact of epistemic tools like the Trolley Problem and
Moral Machine. These shape how safety and automobility are framed as
challenges for the driverless car to solve. Blending critical studies of
technology, culture, and society, the book examines how driverless cars are
reshaping forms of governance, responsibility and values. *Auto-xorrect*
examines the cultural ontologies of the driverless car: as an AI/robot
imaginary, a big data infrastructure, and a conventional twentieth-century
automobile. The book ultimately argues for broader understanding of ethics
and values—not just as outputs of AI systems but as essential components of
our present and future social and technological landscapes.

Thanks and best wishes,
Maya


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Associate director (Research partnerships), Senior research associate,
Leverhulme
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University of Cambridge, UK. You can order my book *Auto-Correct: Fantasies
and Failures of AI, Ethics, and the Driverless Car* and read the first
chapter online here: https://artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-correct/
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