It is noteworthy that negative eugenics was embraced by not just German fascists but progressives and liberals elsewhere in Europe and North America [16]. As Bashford and Levine (2010) observe, “the optimism of eugenics, and its aspiration …Henry Shevlin, Karina Vold, Matthew Crosby, and Marta Halina, 2019. “The limits of machine intelligence: Despite progress in machine intelligence, artificial general intelligence is still a major challenge,” EMBO Reports, volume 20, number …
Alexandra Minna Stern
historian · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Based on the excerpts provided, Alexandra Minna Stern appears to be a historian who examines the ideological and scientific contexts of eugenics, particularly how progressive and liberal societies (not just fascist regimes) adopted eugenic frameworks. Her work is cited in these readings to complicate narratives about eugenics as a uniquely extremist phenomenon, showing instead how optimistic, scientistic thinking across the political spectrum enabled reproductive control policies. This historical grounding matters for a course on AI and cybernetics because it illustrates how ostensibly neutral scientific rationalism can embed problematic assumptions about human improvement and control into systems of governance.
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