Artificial Life After Frankenstein

by Eileen Hunt Botting and Tiffany Clarke Harrison

Book Overview

Artificial Life After Frankenstein brings the insights born of Mary Shelley's legacy to bear upon the ethics and politics of making artificial life and intelligence in the twenty-first century.

What are the obligations of humanity to the artificial creatures we make? And what are the corresponding rights of those creatures, whether they are learning machines or genetically modified organisms? In seeking ways to respond to these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812252748
• ISBN13: 9780812252743
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"