Shannon Vallor

Poor Technology

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Poor Technology is a forceful provocation to contemporary AI narratives, whether utopian or dystopian. In clear and illuminating prose, Checketts exposes our reluctance to confront the uncomfortable relationship between our visions of the machine "other" and those of us who have always and everywhere been other: the poor.”

Rebooting the Machines

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“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.”