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Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence , by Dan McQuillan
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
...David Golumbia [email protected] Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence . By Dan McQuillan . Bristol : Bristol University Press , 2022 . 190 pp. Copyright © 2023 Duke University Press 2023 This is a valuable book with much to offer interested...
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Thick Description for Critical AI: Generating Data Capitalism and Provocations for a Multisensory Approach
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
...Caroline E. Schuster; Kristen M. Schuster Abstract This article argues that critical AI studies should make a methodological investment in “thick description” to counteract the tendency both within computational design and business settings to presume (or, in the case of start-ups, hope...
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Critical AI and Design Justice: An Interview with Sasha Costanza-Chock
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
...Kristin Rose; Kate Henne; Sabelo Mhlambi; Anand Sarwate; Sasha Costanza-Chock The following interview with Sasha Costanza-Chock (she/they) is an edited transcript from an online event that was part of a yearlong event series co-organized by Critical AI @ Rutgers and colleagues at the Australian...
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How to Make “AI” Intelligent; or, The Question of Epistemic Equality
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
...Christopher Newfield Abstract Critics have identified a set of operational flaws in the machine language and deep learning systems now discussed under the “AI” banner. Five of the most discussed are social biases, particularly racism; opacity, such that users cannot assess how results were...
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Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of Ethics in AI , edited by Thao Phan, Jake Goldenfein, Declan Kuch, and Monique Mann
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
...Ewa Plonowska Ziarek [email protected] Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of Ethics in AI . Edited by Thao Phan , Jake Goldenfein , Declan Kuch , and Monique Mann . Amsterdam : Institute of Network Cultures , 2022 . 171 pp. Open access. Copyright © 2024 Ewa...
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The Ethics of (Generative) AI
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
...Hendrik Kempt; Jan-Christoph Heilinger Abstract The clamor for AI-based applications involving generative models for text and images has fueled wild speculation about the risks and opportunities for society and humanity at large. The potential “existential” threat as a precursor to artificial...
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Sustainable Data Rivers? Rebalancing the Data Ecosystem That Underlies Generative AI
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
...Sylvie Delacroix Abstract The salient concern, today, is not whether copyright law will “allow robots to learn.” The pressing question is whether the exploitation of the data ecosystem that has made generative AI possible can be made socially sustainable. Just as the human right to water is only...
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The Fumes of AI
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
[email protected] Copyright © 2024 Mél Hogan 2024 extractivism energy techno-fix cloud AI Alongside the recent hype and anxieties surrounding generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), scholars and engineers across the globe have noted that the environmental costs and impacts...
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Responsible AI in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities , edited by Damian Okaibedi Eke, Kutoma Wakunuma, and Simsola Akintoye
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
...Roopika Risam [email protected] Responsible AI in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities . Edited by Damian Okaibedi Eke , Kutoma Wakunuma , and Simsola Akintoye . Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan , 2023 . 216 pp. Open access. Copyright © 2024 Roopika Risam...
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Regulatory Analogies, LLMs, and Generative AI
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
...Ellen P. Goodman Abstract With the release of large language models such as GPT-4, the push for regulation of artificial intelligence has accelerated the world over. Proponents of different regulatory strategies argue that AI systems should be regulated like nuclear weapons posing catastrophic risk...
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Algorithms for the People: Democracy in the Age of AI , by Josh Simons
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
...Lucia M. Rafanelli [email protected] Algorithms for the People: Democracy in the Age of AI . By Josh Simons . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2023 . 303 pp. Copyright © 2024 Lucia M. Rafanelli 2024 Some see AI systems as apolitical tools, their design...
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Beyond Insiders and Outsiders: Transdisciplinary Critical AI
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
...Megan Ward Abstract Part book review, part thinkpiece, this essay explores the possibilities and limitations for critical AI raised by the edited collection The Cultural Life of Machine Learning: An Incursion into Critical AI Studies (2021). It identifies three practices for scholars...
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A Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights for Education
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
...Kathryn Conrad Abstract In the wake of the introduction of ChatGPT, educators have been faced with pressure to adapt to the disruptive technology of AI chatbots. But these tools were not developed with educational applications in mind, and they come with many potential risks and harms to students...
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The Origins of Generative AI in Transcription and Machine Translation, and Why That Matters
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
.... The authors contrast this technical trajectory with other intellectual currents in AI research that aimed to create empowering tools to help users to accomplish explicit goals by augmenting their capabilities to think, act, and communicate, through mechanisms that were transparent and accountable...
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Beyond Chatbot-K: On Large Language Models, “Generative AI,” and Rise of Chatbots—An Introduction
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
...Lauren M. E. Goodlad; Matthew Stone Abstract This essay introduces the history of the “generative AI” paradigm, including its underlying political economy, key technical developments, and sociocultural and environmental effects. In concert with this framing it discusses the articles, thinkpieces...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (2)
Published: 01 October 2024
... later, as cochair of the Joint Task Force on Writing and AI—representing the Modern Language Association and the Conference on College Composition and Communication (MLA-CCCC)—I served as host on an official webinar titled “What AI Means for Teaching” ( 2023 ). Over three thousand people registered...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (2)
Published: 01 October 2024
...James E. Dobson [email protected] Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines . By Joy Buolamwini . New York : Penguin , 2023 . 308 pp. Copyright © 2025 Duke University Press 2025 When ChatGPT generates a text, we puzzle over its...
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in Where Knowledge Begins? Generative Search, Information Literacy, and the Problem of Friction
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Published: 01 October 2024
Figure 3. A sample search response using Perplexity AI (2024).
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (2)
Published: 01 October 2024
...Critical AI Abstract This 2024 interview with Verneek AI cofounder Nasrin Mostafazadeh, conducted by the editorial team of Critical AI , focuses on the business sustainability of large language models. Copyright © 2025 Duke University Press 2025 large language models start-ups sustainable...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (2)
Published: 01 October 2024
...Figure 3. A sample search response using Perplexity AI (2024). ...
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