AI for everyone? critical perspectives

We are entering a new era of technological determinism and solutionism in which governments and business actors are seeking data-driven change, assuming that Artificial Intelligence is now inevitable and ubiquitous. But we have not even started asking the right questions, let alone developed an unde...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Verdegem, Pieter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London University of Westminster Press 2021, 2021
Series:Critical, digital and social media studies
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Why We Need Critical Perspectives on AI Pieter Verdegem
  • Part 1: AI
  • Humans vs. Machines
  • 2. Artificial Intelligence (AI): When Humans and Machines Might Have to Coexist
  • 3. Digital Humanism: Epistemological, Ontological and Praxiological Foundations
  • 4. An Alternative Rationalisation of Creative AI by De-Familiarising Creativity: Towards an Intelligibility of Its Own Terms
  • 5. Post-Humanism, Mutual Aid Dan McQuillan
  • Part 2: Discourses and Myths About AI
  • 6. The Language Labyrinth: Constructive Critique on the Terminology Used in the AI Discourse
  • 7. AI Ethics Needs Good Data
  • 8. 'I he Social Reconfiguration of Artificial Intelligence: Utility and Feasibility
  • 9. Creating the Technological Saviour: Discourses on AI in Europe and the Legitimation of Super Capitalism Benedetta Brevini
  • 10. AI Bugs and Failures: How and Why to Render AI-Algorithms More Human?
  • Part 3: AI Power and Inequalities
  • 11. Primed Prediction: A Critical Examination of the Consequences of Exclusion of the Ontological Now in AI Protocol
  • 12. Algorithmic Logic in Digital Capitalism
  • 13. 'Not Ready for Prime Time': Biometrics and Biopolitics in the (Un)Making of California's Facial Recognition Ban
  • 14. Beyond Mechanical Turk: The Work of Brazilians on Global AI Platforms
  • 15. Towards Data Justice Unionism? A Labour Perspective on AI Governance
  • The Editor and Contributors
  • Index
  • Includes bibliographical references