Jo Ann Oravec (MA, MS, MBA, PhD) is a full professor in the College of Business and Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (Department of Information Technology and Supply Chain Management), as well as the Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies, UW-Madison. Her publications include Virtual Individuals, Virtual Groups. She was the first chair of the Privacy Council of the State of Wisconsin.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Some Dramaturgical and Ethical Approaches to the Dark Side.- Chapter 2. Negative Dimensions of Human-Robot and Human-AI Interactions: Frightening Legacies, Emerging Dysfunctions, and Creepiness.- Chapter 3. Love, Sex, & Robots: Sex Robots, Privacy, and Robot Addiction.- Chapter 4. The Long Robotic Arm of the Law: Emerging Police, Military, Militia, Security, and Other Compulsory Robots.- Chapter 5. Gilding Artificial Lilies: Artificial Intelligence’s Legacies of Technological Overstatement, Embellishment, and Hyperbole.- Chapter 6. “Our Hearts Go Out to the Victim’s Family”: Death by Robot and Autonomous Vehicle.- Chapter 7. Robo-Rage Against the Machine: Abuse, Sabotage, and Bullying of Robots and Autonomous Vehicles.- Chapter 8. The Future of Embodied AI: Containing and Mitigating the Dark and Creepy Sides of Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and AI.

“Jo Ann Oravec’s Good Robot, Bad Robot: Dark and Creepy Sides of Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and AI is … a three-hundred-page literature review of current human-device interaction research. … I can certainly imagine assigning chapters from Oravec’s work as foundational reading in any of my undergraduate robot media courses, especially those taken by business and marketing majors. This book belongs in engineering and marketing classrooms and in the hands of AI researchers.” (Liz W. Faber, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, August, 2024)

Jo Ann Oravec (MA, MS, MBA, PhD) is a full professor in the College of Business and Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (Department of Information Technology and Supply Chain Management), as well as the Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies, UW-Madison. Her publications include Virtual Individuals, Virtual Groups. She was the first chair of the Privacy Council of the State of Wisconsin.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Some Dramaturgical and Ethical Approaches to the Dark Side.- Chapter 2. Negative Dimensions of Human-Robot and Human-AI Interactions: Frightening Legacies, Emerging Dysfunctions, and Creepiness.- Chapter 3. Love, Sex, & Robots: Sex Robots, Privacy, and Robot Addiction.- Chapter 4. The Long Robotic Arm of the Law: Emerging Police, Military, Militia, Security, and Other Compulsory Robots.- Chapter 5. Gilding Artificial Lilies: Artificial Intelligence’s Legacies of Technological Overstatement, Embellishment, and Hyperbole.- Chapter 6. “Our Hearts Go Out to the Victim’s Family”: Death by Robot and Autonomous Vehicle.- Chapter 7. Robo-Rage Against the Machine: Abuse, Sabotage, and Bullying of Robots and Autonomous Vehicles.- Chapter 8. The Future of Embodied AI: Containing and Mitigating the Dark and Creepy Sides of Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and AI.

“Jo Ann Oravec’s Good Robot, Bad Robot: Dark and Creepy Sides of Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and AI is … a three-hundred-page literature review of current human-device interaction research. … I can certainly imagine assigning chapters from Oravec’s work as foundational reading in any of my undergraduate robot media courses, especially those taken by business and marketing majors. This book belongs in engineering and marketing classrooms and in the hands of AI researchers.” (Liz W. Faber, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, August, 2024)

Jo Ann Oravec (MA, MS, MBA, PhD) is a full professor in the College of Business and Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (Department of Information Technology and Supply Chain Management), as well as the Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies, UW-Madison. Her publications include Virtual Individuals, Virtual Groups. She was the first chair of the Privacy Council of the State of Wisconsin.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Some Dramaturgical and Ethical Approaches to the Dark Side.- Chapter 2. Negative Dimensions of Human-Robot and Human-AI Interactions: Frightening Legacies, Emerging Dysfunctions, and Creepiness.- Chapter 3. Love, Sex, & Robots: Sex Robots, Privacy, and Robot Addiction.- Chapter 4. The Long Robotic Arm of the Law: Emerging Police, Military, Militia, Security, and Other Compulsory Robots.- Chapter 5. Gilding Artificial Lilies: Artificial Intelligence’s Legacies of Technological Overstatement, Embellishment, and Hyperbole.- Chapter 6. “Our Hearts Go Out to the Victim’s Family”: Death by Robot and Autonomous Vehicle.- Chapter 7. Robo-Rage Against the Machine: Abuse, Sabotage, and Bullying of Robots and Autonomous Vehicles.- Chapter 8. The Future of Embodied AI: Containing and Mitigating the Dark and Creepy Sides of Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and AI.

“Jo Ann Oravec’s Good Robot, Bad Robot: Dark and Creepy Sides of Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and AI is … a three-hundred-page literature review of current human-device interaction research. … I can certainly imagine assigning chapters from Oravec’s work as foundational reading in any of my undergraduate robot media courses, especially those taken by business and marketing majors. This book belongs in engineering and marketing classrooms and in the hands of AI researchers.” (Liz W. Faber, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, August, 2024)