Auto-Correct: Fantasies and Failures of AI Ethics and the Driverless Car by Maya Indira Ganesh dismantles the logic of the trolley problem as a founding myth of AI ethics, tracing how a philosophical thought experiment became infrastructure for how we design autonomous systems.
About This Book
The driverless car is not simply a vehicle — it is an epistemic project, a claim about what machines can know and decide. Ganesh examines the language, materiality, and cultural assumptions embedded in the tools used to frame safety and automobility as solvable engineering problems. By interrogating the outputs of AI systems against the complexity of actual social and technological life, Auto-Correct reveals the gap between the ethical frameworks encoded into autonomous vehicles and the human, political, and situated realities those frameworks cannot account for. Essential reading for anyone working at the intersection of AI ethics, design, and critical technology studies.
Key Features
- 224 pages of critical analysis tracing the cultural and philosophical underpinnings of AI ethics and autonomous vehicle design
- Author: Maya Indira Ganesh
- Published by Artez Press
What You'll Discover
- How the trolley problem shifted AI ethical decision-making from a human, social practice into a data-driven enterprise
- The role of epistemic tools — language, materiality, and culture — in constructing safety and mobility as machine-solvable problems
- The disconnect between the outputs of AI systems and the social and technological realities they claim to navigate
- How autonomous vehicle design encodes particular assumptions about ethics, agency, and futures that deserve critical scrutiny
About the Author
Maya Indira Ganesh is a researcher and writer working at the intersection of AI ethics, technology, and culture. In Auto-Correct, she brings a critical interdisciplinary perspective to bear on the philosophical and material conditions that shape how autonomous systems are imagined and built.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 224
- Dimensions: 15 x 21 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789491444814
- Publisher: Artez Press
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Designers, architects, and researchers engaged with AI ethics, autonomous systems, critical technology studies, and the politics of future mobility.