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On what basis can we challenge Artificial Intelligence (AI) - its infusion, investment,
and implementation across the globe? This book answers this question by
drawing on a range of critical approaches from the social sciences and humanities,
including posthumanism, ethics and human values, surveillance studies, Black
feminism, and other strategies for social and political resistance. The authors
analyse timely topics, including bias and language processing, responsibility
and machine learning, COVID-19 and AI in health technologies, bio-AI and
nanotechnology, digital ethics, AI and the gig economy, representations of AI in
literature and culture, and many more. This book is for those who are currently
working in the field of AI critique and disruption as well as in AI development and
programming. It is also for those who want to learn more about how to doubt,
question, challenge, reject, reform and otherwise reprise AI as it been practiced
and promoted.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Critical Insights: Bringing the social sciences and humanities to AI.- Section I: Posthumanism.- Chapter 2: Virtually Grown Up: Artificial Intelligence in Youth Fiction.- Chapter 3: The Feminized Robot: Labour and Harawayan Afterlives.- Section II: Human values.- Chapter 4: AI's fast and furtive spread by infusion into technologies that are already in use - a critical assessment.- Chapter 5: Dumbwaiters & Smartphones: The Responsibility of Intelligence.- Section III: Media and Language.- Chapter 6: Artificial Intelligence: a medium that hides its nature.- Chapter 7: Gender Bias in Machine Translation Systems.- Section IV: Governance.- Chapter 8: Not Anytime Soon: The clinical translation of nanorobots.- Chapter 9: Controversial Covid-19 contact-tracing app in India: digital self-defence, governance and surveillance.- Chapter 10: Intelligent Justice': AI Implementations in China's Legal Systems.- Section V: Resistance.- Chapter 11: Artificial Intelligence between Oppression and Resistance: Black Feminist Perspectives on Emerging Technologies.- Chapter 12: AI Ruined the Internet - and Everything Else: A manifesto.- Index.
About the author
Ariane Hanemaayer is Associate Professor at Brandon University and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge. She is also Author of
The Impossible Clinic: A critical sociology of evidence based medicine.
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"The editor Hanemaayer provides a succinct history of AI discontent as a strand of criticism toward the central view of AI scholarship ... . AI and its discontents offers much needed in depth reflections on serious structural issues with AI as this technology is ushered into our daily lives and sold across borders ... . the book also shows how valuable and fruitful AI criticism as a subfield in humanities can be, both in academia and in governance ... ." (Manh Tung Ho, AI & SOCIETY, Vol. 39 (3), 2024
)"The book offers a number of useful critiques of AI as it interacts with increasing numbers of Internet users. Readers should take the Marxist perspectives with a grain of salt." (G. R. Mayforth, Computing Reviews, October 19, 2022)
"All of the chapters are well written and the editorial process was clearly very good. ... I found four essays particularly noteworthy ... . If you are limited on time, these core essays are must-reads. I found this book interesting because it disclosed to me what others outside the computational science community see." (Anthony J. Duben, Computing Reviews, July 20, 2022)
