{"product_id":"9783032026644","title":"Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI","description":"\u003ch1\u003eDisabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eWilliams, Rua M.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv data-ogsc=\"black\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eThis book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people. Why are the negative consequences of so-called AI so consistently directed at disabled and racialized people? \u003cem\u003eDisabling Intelligences\u003c\/em\u003e answers this question by detailing the ongoing effects of the eugenicist mindset on our corporate ventures and our interpersonal relationships. It offers an accessible guide to the various meanings, methods, and impacts of AI, and provides a clear framework for classifying, categorizing, evaluating, and critiquing AI projects. Bridging the gap between STS and critical disability studies, the author centers disabled experiences to present a novel framework that helps readers transform their understandings of citizenship, consumerism, social movements, journalism, engineering, research, and scholarship.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-ogsc=\"black\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-ogsc=\"black\"\u003eAn ideal reading for academics at all levels interested in AI technologies across the social sciences and humanities, as well as engineering and computer science, this groundbreaking short monograph challenges our understanding and assumptions about technology, encompassing the history of AI and disability from popular culture to real-life case-studies. Readers will come away from this text equipped with a clarity of perception and a toolkit for evaluating and resisting metaeugenics in technology.\u003c\/div\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2025-09-27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783032026644\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-032-02665-1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 136\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44318390943884,"sku":"9783032026644","price":40.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032026644.jpg?v=1775067614","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032026644","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}