Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents

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.

Draws on a range of critical approaches across the social sciences Analyses timely topics, including bias and language processing, responsibility and machine learning COVID-19 An invaluable reference for those working in the field of AI critique and disruption

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
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.