LEADER 04088nam 22005655 450 001 9910987789403321 005 20250315122735.0 010 $a9783031820861 010 $a303182086X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-82086-1 035 $a(CKB)37916645200041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-82086-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31960135 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31960135 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937916645200041 100 $a20250315d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHuman Agency, Artificial Intelligence, and the Attention Economy $eThe Case for Digital Distancing /$fby Leslie Paul Thiele 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (X, 346 p. 1 illus.) 311 08$a9783031820854 311 08$a3031820851 327 $aChapter 1: Digital Upgrading and Human Downgrading -- Chapter 2: Regulation and Self-Governance -- Chapter 3: Distraction and Dependence: The Loss of Reflective Self-Direction -- Chapter 4: Deskilling: The Atrophy of Cognitive and Social Aptitudes -- Chapter 5: Dogmatism: The Eclipse of Common Truths and the Decay of Civic Trust -- Chapter 6: Despair: Passivity in the Face of Predictive Power -- Chapter 7: Self-Leadership and Service -- Chapter 8: Conclusions. 330 $aHuman beings face serious danger in navigating the digital world. Our craving for attention and the tendency to distribute it widely is instinctive. So is the tendency to heed fast-moving objects, novel phenomena, and perilous prospects. And we relish convenience and efficiency. While these innate inclinations had clear evolutionary benefits for our species, in a world of digital technologies that covet our engagement and service ever-more of our needs, these predispositions get dangerously exploited. So we find ourselves compulsively circling our digital devices, bewitched by their shimmering screens. We are as moths to a virtual flame, and it may only be a matter of time before our downward spiral reaches a cataclysmic nadir. In Human Agency, Artificial Intelligence, and the Attention Economy: The Case for Digital Distancing, Leslie Paul Thiele explores the impact of AI-enabled digital platforms on human agency, focusing on how these platforms exploit psychological and emotional predispositions to capture attention, leading to distraction, dependence, and a decline in cognitive and social skills. These troubles then impact our political lives, manipulate human behavior, and undermines our democracy. In hopes of averting this degradation of human agency, he explains how we can cultivate the dispositions, habits, and skills needed to sustain human agency in a world increasingly surveilled and administered by digital technologies. Leslie Paul Thiele is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at University of Florida, USA. He is also director of Sustainability Studies at University of Florida and of the Center for Adaptive Innovation, Resilience, Ethics and Science. He is the author of many books, including Sustainability (3rd edition, 2024) and The Art and Craft of Political Theory (2019). 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aTechnology$xSociological aspects 606 $aTechnology$xPhilosophy 606 $aPolitical Theory 606 $aEmerging Technologies 606 $aPhilosophy of Technology 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 0$aTechnology$xSociological aspects. 615 0$aTechnology$xPhilosophy. 615 14$aPolitical Theory. 615 24$aEmerging Technologies. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Technology. 676 $a320.01 700 $aThiele$b Leslie Paul$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0539571 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910987789403321 996 $aHuman Agency, Artificial Intelligence, and the Attention Economy$94349407 997 $aUNINA