Ethos, Technology, and AI in Contemporary Society

Editors' Preface
Aaron Hess and Jens Kjeldsen

1. Introduction: Ethos and technology in contemporary society
Aaron Hess and Jens Kjeldsen

Part I: Theorizing Ethos and Technology
2. Ethos+trust in a digital age
Laura Gurak
3. Large Language Models: Logos without Ethos
David J. Gunkel
4. Ethos in the machine - the rhetorical character of AI
Jens Kjeldsen

Part II: Ethos through AI and Algorithms
5. The ethos construction of fact-checkers in an AI setting
Mette Bengtsson, Sabina Schousboe and Anna Schjott

6. Trust in automated decisions? Exploring human-technology interaction in the field clinical AI
Prins Marcus Valiant Lantz and Sine Norholm Just
7. Ghosting the machine? Analyzing the anxieties about an AI ethos
Aaron Hess
8. An Avocado Armchair and Garfield the Antichrist: Ethos and "Deep Learning" for Text to Image AI Technologies
E. Johanna Hartelius
9. Algorithmic Ethos: Sophistic Pedagogy and the Ethical Subjects of Social Media
Jamie Jelinek

Part III: Ethos Among Online Audiences
10. Ethos and Pathos in Detecting Hate Speech
Katarzyna Budzynska, Barbara Konat, Ewelina Gajewska, Konrad Kiljan, Yana Sviatsilnikava, Maciej Uberna, He Zhang and Adam Mickiewicz
11. Towards a Platform-Sensitive Understanding of Trust: Immigrants' Trust in Authorities during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Maryam Alavi Nia
12. Eros and Ethos in Celebrity Deepfake Pornography
Amber Davisson
13. 'We Have to Save the Children': Ethos, Digital Affordances, and the Call to Adventure in Reactionary Digital Politics
Alan Finlayson and Robert Topinka

Afterword
Carolyn Miller