{"title":"In Spite Of Ourselves: Our Duty To Our Slaves Of Steel","authors":"M. Bernstein","doi":"10.1145/3423958.3423961","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"When we read a book, we carry on a conversation with an absent mind. When we read the contemporary Web, we converse not only with the sometimes-human authors of individual tweets and posts, but also with the nonhuman intelligence that selects our Facebook newsfeed or our TikTok videos. This phenomenon is even plainer when the docuverse is mediated by an agent like Siri or Alexa. These agents and curators serve us best when they know us well. What do we owe our slaves of steel?","PeriodicalId":107520,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3423958.3423961","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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When we read a book, we carry on a conversation with an absent mind. When we read the contemporary Web, we converse not only with the sometimes-human authors of individual tweets and posts, but also with the nonhuman intelligence that selects our Facebook newsfeed or our TikTok videos. This phenomenon is even plainer when the docuverse is mediated by an agent like Siri or Alexa. These agents and curators serve us best when they know us well. What do we owe our slaves of steel?