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.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
Part I: Formation
1. In the Service of Empire
2. In the Service of Capital
Part II: Self and the Social Order
3. Epistemic Forgeries and Ghosts in the Machine
4. Adaptation, Not Abolition: Critical AI Experts and Carceral-Positive Logic
5. Artificial Whiteness
Part III: Alternatives
6. Dissenting Visions: From Autopoietic Love to Embodied War
7. A Generative Refusal
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Yarden Katz

Summary

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.

Additional text

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

Product details

• Authors: Yarden Katz
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780231194914
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19491-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; 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