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This book engages with perspectives that interrogate and provide scholarly vocabulary to understand the various applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in our professional, legal and media spaces. In doing so, it presents a dialogue between two seemingly incompatible bodies of social theories - Critical Political Economy and Southern approaches - to the study of machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies. The book highlights how such a dialogue is necessary to facilitate a bottom-up understanding of experiences presented from a geosocial standpoint to the global. Through this effort, this book excavates human personhood in the face of artificial intelligence technologies. Curating reflections and experiences by authors from and on the Global South, the book underscores intersecting inequities and multiple marginality that are playing out even as we step into an era of deep engagement with these technologies.
Preeti Raghunath is a Lecturer in Digital Media and Society at the University of Sheffield, UK. Over the past decade, she has traversed academic landscapes in India, Malaysia and the UK. Her research interests have broadly explored global communication, with a focus on policies, infrastructures and people. She conducted an expansive policy ethnography on community radio in South Asia, which was published as Community Radio Policies in South Asia: A Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Her current theoretical and empirical research is on the global AI and data economy, especially as they play out in the Global South. Preeti has served as a research consultant with the United Nations University, Macau on projects on AI and its policies in Southeast Asia, and digital transformation and sustainability.
Sommario
Introduction. - Conversing Across Incommensurables?.-Critical Political Economy and Southern Approaches to Artificial Intelligence.-Data, anthropology and the political economy of objectified knowledge.-The Hidden Cost of AI Colonialism.-The Plight of Female Gig Workers in Indonesia.-An attempt to authenticate deepfakes.-India’s state-tech collaboration .-The Brazilian State and Human Rights.-Citizen Identification and Informational Separation of Powers.-Rising Caste Bias in Indian AI .- Epilogue.-From Frontier Technologies to Frontier Lives.
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Preeti Raghunath is a Lecturer in Digital Media and Society at the University of Sheffield, UK. Over the past decade, she has traversed academic landscapes in India, Malaysia and the UK. Her research interests have broadly explored global communication, with a focus on policies, infrastructures and people. She conducted an expansive policy ethnography on community radio in South Asia, which was published as Community Radio Policies in South Asia: A Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Her current theoretical and empirical research is on the global AI and data economy, especially as they play out in the Global South. Preeti has served as a research consultant with the United Nations University, Macau on projects on AI and its policies in Southeast Asia, and digital transformation and sustainability.
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This book engages with perspectives that interrogate and provide scholarly vocabulary to understand the various applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in our professional, legal and media spaces. In doing so, it presents a dialogue between two seemingly incompatible bodies of social theories - Critical Political Economy and Southern approaches - to the study of machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies. The book highlights how such a dialogue is necessary to facilitate a bottom-up understanding of experiences presented from a geosocial standpoint to the global. Through this effort, this book excavates human personhood in the face of artificial intelligence technologies. Curating reflections and experiences by authors from and on the Global South, the book underscores intersecting inequities and multiple marginality that are playing out even as we step into an era of deep engagement with these technologies.
