Gun-Detecting AI, Infrastructure, and Bureaucracy

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AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex with Anthony King (Princeton UP, 2025)

Will artificial intelligence soon be fighting our wars for us? Could a machine ever command an army? Anthony King is skeptical. In AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex (Princeton University Press, 2025), he argues that AI is changing war less by replacing ...  Show more

Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life with Mona Sloane (U California Press, 2026)

How AI is rewiring our social fabric—and how we can better shape our future. The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a fourth Industrial Revolution, AI has become a crucial social infrastructure of everyday life. It's embedded in the tools, platforms, and sys ...  Show more

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