A Second Reckoning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Second Reckoning write by Scott D. Seligman. This book was released on 2021-10. A Second Reckoning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Second Reckoning tells the story of John Snowden, a Black man accused of the murder of a pregnant white woman in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1917. He refused to confess despite undergoing torture, was tried—through legal shenanigans—by an all-white jury, and was found guilty on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to death. Despite hair-raising, last-minute appeals to spare his life, Snowden was hanged for the crime. But decades after his death, thanks to tireless efforts by interested citizens and family members who believed him a victim of a “legal lynching,” Snowden was pardoned posthumously by the governor of Maryland in 2001. A Second Reckoning uses Snowden’s case to bring posthumous pardons into the national conversation about amends for past racial injustices. Scott D. Seligman argues that the repeal of racist laws and policies must be augmented by reckoning with America’s judicial past, especially in cases in which prejudice may have tainted procedures or perverted verdicts, evidence of bias survives, and a constituency exists for a second look. Seligman illustrates the profound effects such acts of clemency have on the living and ends with a siren call for a reexamination of such cases on the national level by the Department of Justice, which officially refuses to consider them.
A Second Reckoning
A Second Reckoning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Second Reckoning write by Scott D. Seligman. This book was released on 2021-10. A Second Reckoning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ""A Second Reckoning" tells the heartbreaking story of the murder that led to the city of Annapolis's last hanging and a broader appeal for posthumous justice, especially in racially tainted cases"--
Reckoning
Reckoning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reckoning write by Kerry Wilkinson. This book was released on 2014-07. Reckoning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This first book in a new dystopian trilogy begins the story of one girl's determination to survive the whims of a cruel king whom she has been chosen to serve.
The Promise of Artificial Intelligence
The Promise of Artificial Intelligence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Promise of Artificial Intelligence write by Brian Cantwell Smith. This book was released on 2019-10-08. The Promise of Artificial Intelligence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An argument that—despite dramatic advances in the field—artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent. In this provocative book, Brian Cantwell Smith argues that artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent. Second wave AI, machine learning, even visions of third-wave AI: none will lead to human-level intelligence and judgment, which have been honed over millennia. Recent advances in AI may be of epochal significance, but human intelligence is of a different order than even the most powerful calculative ability enabled by new computational capacities. Smith calls this AI ability “reckoning,” and argues that it does not lead to full human judgment—dispassionate, deliberative thought grounded in ethical commitment and responsible action. Taking judgment as the ultimate goal of intelligence, Smith examines the history of AI from its first-wave origins (“good old-fashioned AI,” or GOFAI) to such celebrated second-wave approaches as machine learning, paying particular attention to recent advances that have led to excitement, anxiety, and debate. He considers each AI technology's underlying assumptions, the conceptions of intelligence targeted at each stage, and the successes achieved so far. Smith unpacks the notion of intelligence itself—what sort humans have, and what sort AI aims at. Smith worries that, impressed by AI's reckoning prowess, we will shift our expectations of human intelligence. What we should do, he argues, is learn to use AI for the reckoning tasks at which it excels while we strengthen our commitment to judgment, ethics, and the world.
The Reckoning
The Reckoning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Reckoning write by S. L. Scott. This book was released on 2015-04-05. The Reckoning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jack Dalton was smooth. Johnny Outlaw was magnetic. Two sides of the same man. Holliday Hughes chose to take a chance on romance, but never expected to fall head over heels for a rock star. He was charismatic and confident, sexy and completely irresistible. The second he laid eyes on Holliday he knew he wanted to get to know her better... under the covers. With her intoxicating mix of strength and vulnerability, confidence and sex appeal, his heart never stood a chance. Together, their love was a storm of chaos and calm. When their fame became a force to be reckoned with, could their love hold them together or would their notoriety tear them apart? "This isn't how our melody goes. This isn't how we were supposed to play out."
