Books by Carissa Véliz
Carissa Véliz is a philosophy professor at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI. In 2021, she received the Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy from the International Association of Computing and Philosophy.
“This is both a philosophical and a polemical book: one that links big ideas to immediate actions in the real world. I see it as of a piece with important writing by philosophers like Evan Selinger and Evan Greer in the US, who have sounded the alarm around the normalisation of various kinds of surveillance and data collection. A line I like in Veliz’s book is that, contrary to the idea that philosophy is about dispassionate consideration, it’s appropriate and indeed important to protest and to show anger in the face of incursions upon your liberty. Resistance is not futile, but necessary.” Read more...
The best books on The Ethics of Technology
Tom Chatfield, Journalist
Interviews with Carissa Véliz
The best books on Prediction and Prophecy, recommended by Carissa Véliz
From the oracles of Ancient Greece to contemporary warnings about artificial intelligence, prophecies have always done more than merely forecast events. Oxford philosopher Carissa Véliz, author of Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, recommends five books that explore prophecy’s power and argues that resisting its lure may be one of the most important intellectual tasks of our time.
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Zed: A Novel
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Plot to Break the World
by Christopher Wylie -
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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
by Safiya Umoja Noble -
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AI Ethics
by Mark Coeckelbergh
The best books on Digital Ethics, recommended by Carissa Véliz
The best books on Digital Ethics, recommended by Carissa Véliz
Philosophers have a lot to add to debates about digital technology and the moral issues raised by its rapid rise, argues Carissa Véliz, a professor at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI. Here she talks us through books for the general reader that introduce some of the challenges of digital ethics, from concerns about privacy and bias to the threat to democracy and the future of humanity.
Interviews where books by Carissa Véliz were recommended
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The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality
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The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
by Stuart Russell -
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Privacy Is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
by Gaia Vince
The best books on The Ethics of Technology, recommended by Tom Chatfield
The best books on The Ethics of Technology, recommended by Tom Chatfield
We are building ever more powerful machines that will compute answers to any questions we care to ask them, says Tom Chatfield, the author and tech philosopher. But are we asking the right questions? Here, he selects five of the best books on the ethics of technology—thoughtful explorations of how our newly-made tools might remake us.
