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Ambient Intelligence and the Built Environment

When Artificial Intelligence Produces Space

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Ambient Intelligence and the Built Environment

When Artificial Intelligence Produces Space

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When Artificial Intelligence Produces Space presents an in-depth analysis of the digitization of space and its impact on society.

As the emergence of smart environments marks a new phase of capitalism, Patrick Lecomte situates how the invasion of technological tools influences our personal spaces. For Big Tech, he argues, human space has become the new frontier in a fierce battle for dominance in the emerging market for Ambient Intelligence (Aml). Our relationships with the environment and our reality are the resources that technology companies want to exploit.

Lecomte uses various conceptual lenses to explore the societal challenges posed by the integration of digital technologies and AI in the built environment. In particular, Lecomte investigates how AmI promises to make our living spaces intelligent, and how this creates danger for individuals' fundamental freedoms and rights. Through these analyses, this book exposes societal and ethical issues such as generalized surveillance, respect for private life, and human beings' freedom of action and capacity for individuation.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: From the noosphere to ambient intelligence
1. The built environment in the digital age
2. Being in smart environments
3. Ontological capitalism
4. Spatial considerations on ambient intelligence
5. Ethics of smart environments
Conclusion: The urgent need for a regulation protecting human Umwelt

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About the Author

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Mar 04 2027
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 176
ISBN 9798216370826
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 2 bw illus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Author

Patrick Lecomte

Patrick Lecomte is Professor of Real Estate in the…

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