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Referencing one of the Learning Resources below, choose a (one) question in the research project list and answer it in relation to posthumanism. In other words treat posthumanism as a new technology or technological way of being.

Learning Resources

· posthuman | The Chicago School of Media Theory:

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywords/posthuman/

· Critical Posthumanism:

http://criticalposthumanism.net/

· Which decisions should we leave to algorithms? | Aeon Essays:

https://aeon.co/essays/which-decisions-should-we-leave-to-algorithms

· True AI is both logically possible and utterly implausible | Aeon Essays:

https://aeon.co/essays/true-ai-is-both-logically-possible-and-utterly-implausible

· Arnold Toynbee shines a light on the humanities’ role today | Aeon Essays:

https://aeon.co/essays/arnold-toynbee-shines-a-light-on-the-humanities-role-today

· Artificial Intelligence and Human Nature | The New Atlantis :

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/artificial-intelligence-and-human-nature

· Human Nature is Here to Stay | The New Atlantis:

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/human-nature-is-here-to-stay

· Why Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Will Evolve Together, by Stephen Hsu:

http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/dont-worry-smart-machines-will-take-us-with-them

Questions: the research project list (Answer only one in relation to the learning resources above).

1. What      is the problem for which this technology is the solution?
2. Whose      problem is it?
3. Which      people and what institutions might be most seriously harmed by a      technological solution?
4. What      new problems might be created because we have solved this problem?
5. What      sort of people and institutions might acquire special economic and political      power because of technological change?
6. What      changes in language are being enforced by new technologies, and what is      being gained and lost by such changes?

This assignment needs to be between 200-300 words.