Artificial Whiteness - Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence

Yarden Katz reveals the ideology embedded in the concept of artificial intelligence, contending that it both serves and mimics the logic of white supremacy. Only by seeing the connection between artificial intelligence and whiteness can we prioritize alternatives to the conception of AI as an all-encompassing technological force.

Zusammenfassung

Yarden Katz reveals the ideology embedded in the concept of artificial intelligence, contending that it both serves and mimics the logic of white supremacy. Only by seeing the connection between artificial intelligence and whiteness can we prioritize alternatives to the conception of AI as an all-encompassing technological force.

Zusatztext

[A] frontal assault on the flexible and nefarious association between whiteness and artificial intelligence...Highly recommended.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Yarden Katz
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780231194907
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19490-7
• Seiten: 352
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie; Sociology, Artificial Intelligence, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Social discrimination & inequality, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Central / national / federal government policies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General, Central government policies, Science Funding & Policy, Science funding and policy, Social discrimination and social justice