Dr. Ayanna Howard is an accomplished entrepreneur, educator, and international expert in robotics and AI. Her leadership roles include dean of The Ohio State University College of Engineering, chair of the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a deputy manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She has been recognized on Forbes' "America's Top 50 Women in Tech" list, Business Insider's "23 of the Most Powerful Women Engineers" list, and Women Inc.'s "Most Influential Women Corporate Board Directors" list. She has also been featured in the Amazon Prime series Luminaries and in the IMAX movie Superhuman Body.
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Contents Chapter 1: Oh Great, Another AI Apocalypse Story Chapter 2: Misery Loves Company: The Rise of the Robot (Co)Working Class Chapter 3: AI or Human: Can You Tell Who's Talking? Chapter 4: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Does AI Care at All? Chapter 5: Who Is Watching AI When AI Is Watching Us? Chapter 6: Survey Says--The Sexiest Woman in the World Is a Robot Chapter 7: My Doctor Isn't Human. Should I Care? Chapter 8: AI--Saving the World, One Disability at a Time (Except When It's Not) Chapter 9: Fast Speed, Fast Cars, Fast AI Chapter 10: The System Is Perfect Until It Comes After You Chapter 11: To Kill or Not to Kill--Is That the Right Question? Chapter 12: Oh Look, We Fixed AI--Cue the Happy Ending
"In this urgent, clear-eyed reckoning, Ayanna Howard dismantles both the sci-fi hysteria and the Silicon Valley hype to expose what's actually at stake in AI: how society will contend with a technology that amplifies biases, undermines labor markets, and is concentrating power into the hands of the few." --Prof. Kate Crawford, author of the award-winning Atlas of AI "Rebooting the Machines is both a wake-up call and a practical guide, making the case that AI without democratic participation will only serve the few. Essential reading for anyone who believes the public must have a voice in shaping the technologies that shape our lives." --Alondra Nelson, Institute for Advanced Study "AI is influencing every part of our lives, from work to care to how we connect with one another. Ayanna Howard's Rebooting the Machines offers a clear and hopeful case for shaping technology that reflects our humanity, rather than replacing it." --Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code and of Moms First "Ayanna Howard uses her decades of experience to show us a new vision for AI, and a road map for what every citizen can do to achieve a benevolent future: hold yourself responsible, hold your governments and companies responsible, and use your voice to encourage the fair and equitable use of AI." --Peter Norvig, AI research director and Google Education Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence "Rejecting cynical visions of AI as a neutral tool to passively entrust with our futures, the book is an urgent call to all of us to reclaim our right to decide what we want from powerful new technologies--and then demand to see it." --Prof. Shannon Vallor, Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, The University of Edinburgh, and author of The AI Mirror "Through stories from her personal life, her professional life, and across the worlds of technology and engineering, Ayanna Howard shows how AI systems will only be widely accepted if they can be trusted." --Rodney Brooks, professor of robotics, emeritus, at MIT, and incurable robotics entrepreneur "Refusing the trend to glorify or demonize AI, Howard delivers a compelling and pragmatic call to action for navigating this disruptive technological era." --Kate Darling, author of The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals About Our Future with Robots "With the deep technical insight of an engineer, the explanatory skill of an experienced professor, and the compassion of a deeply caring person, Ayanna Howard walks us through the biggest challenges at the boundary of technology and society. Rebooting the Machines is a must-read for anyone hoping 'humankind' and 'the future' play nice together." --Michael L. Littman, University Professor of Computer Science and Associate Provost for Artificial Intelligence, Brown University "Dr. Howard's book is both urgent and timeless. Urgent, because algorithmic bias is evident in world-altering events in the news today. And timeless, because the misapprehensions the public and policymakers have about AI are likely to make the problem even worse." --Christopher Mims, technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal and author of How to AI "Timely, insightful, and required reading as artificial intelligence evolves from a simple tool to a super-intelligent companion." --John Pasmore, founder and CEO of Latimer.AI, an inclusive LLM built to focus on bias mitigation