AI

  • autonomy

    Autonomy is an “intrinsically human term”: it is precisely due to the use of this concept that “we attribute [machines] with human-like behaviour that they are not likely to possess in the near future” (Johansen 2018, 95, 90).

  • Large Technical System

    The conception of AI as a Large Technical System (LTS) – system artefact, system technology, infrastructural technology (Vannuccini & Prytkova 2020) “The study of AI as LTS uncovers active mechanisms of control and coordination, helps to identify types of actors and their incentives and to detect critical nodes of the system.” (Vannuccini and Prytkova, 2020,…

  • Robots, public perception of

    “[m]ost people’s conception of what a robot is appears to be largely based on the way robots are depicted in fiction” + “robots in fiction are largely presented as independent, autonomous actors that have a ‘mind of their own’, with a humanoid or anthropomorphic appearance” (Harbers, Peeters, and Neerincx 2017, 20).