...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...

... of actually existing harms to people and the planet. Asked if tech companies themselves can be trusted to self-regulate despite their focus on profits, Hinton demurred; the same companies releasing these models were also “the most likely” to keep AI “under control,” he asserted. Behind such muddled...

... degree when he claimed that no one in the US government was qualified to regulate AI—that only people in industry can get it “right” (see NBC News 2023 ). As this special issue goes into production, the Writers Guild of America is on strike, partly to negotiate terms governing the use of automated...

... harms—including racism and inequality—which the global hegemony of Big Tech under capitalism tends to perpetuate. Sometimes called “tech-lash,” the resistance against harmful AI applications and growing demands for legal regulation began in 2013 and continues today. To placate public concerns about...

... to constantly push against the physical and mental limits it imposed. That AI systems can shape citizens’ characters poses a challenge for democratically regulating those systems and the companies that profit from them. Democracy requires citizens to decide collectively, and freely, how to organize...

... of those topics. Further, McQuillan's discussion of these councils is remarkably thin and abstract about what they could do to “resist” AI, especially given his dismissive comments about democratic regulation and law earlier on. Workers' councils are described as “spaces of rapid consciousness raising...

..., Daniel Greene, and Anna Lauren Hoffmann. A cogent policy analysis, it ultimately concludes that most regulations of ML (and of AI systems more generally) fail because they are conceived only from within the field's own discourse and result in a “narrow, unjust, and undemocratic set of norms” (Stark...

... representation of civil society, so that is giving me hope. TN: Do you have any hopes for sensible regulation of AI? You talk to lawmakers. Do you think it's at all possible? And we also think about how you share what you learned. I tell the people in my program: You have some knowledge to share...

... exploitation of rivers, so is the fundamental right to access culture, learn, and build upon it. 2 As IP lawyers and regulators scramble to come to terms with the challenges that stem from the rapid commercialization of generative AI, relatively few speak on behalf of the human right to access, learn from...

.... The fact that many people will be involuntarily put in a position to trust AI—despite expert concerns about the very possibility for AI to be trustworthy (Ryan 2020 )—deserves closer attention. The final authority on how to integrate, regulate, and interact with AI ought to be the public with its varied...

...James Smithies [email protected] Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition . By Wendy Hui Kyong Chun . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2021 . 344 pp. Copyright © 2023 Duke University Press 2023 Public discourse over AI has...

..., or ignored; educators who must grapple with student use of automated AI tools; regulators struggling to plug holes in a bursting dam of AI-generated content; and a warming planet burdened with yet another highly resource-intensive technology. And so on. The recipients of huge investment capital are generally...

...Catherine D'Ignazio [email protected] Data Conscience: Algorithmic Siege on Our Humanity . By Brandeis Hill Marshall . Hoboken, NJ : Wiley , 2022 . xix + 352 pp. Copyright © 2024 Catherine D'Ignazio 2024 In recent years, a proliferation of critiques of data and AI have...

... and Maggie Dryden 2024 black box large language models metaphor data justice “GPT-4 Is a Giant Black Box and Its Training Data Remains a Mystery” (Barr 2023 ); “Two-Hundred-Year-Old Math Opens Up AI's Mysterious Black Box” (Choi 2023 ); “ChatGPT, Black Boxes, and Information Dissemination...

...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...

.../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 National University (ANU). Costanza-Chock is a renowned researcher and designer known for their work on social movement networks, transformative media...

..., the right wing–affiliated facial recognition service Clearview AI (O'Brien 2020 ), which law enforcement uses to “accelerate” investigations (i.e., to find and arrest people identified through the technology), derives its model from profile images scraped from social media accounts (Hill 2020 ). In short...

....” Pointing to shame's origins in the regulation of community norms, O'Neil suggests that the denigration of those who fall short is not shame's only use; it also underwrites collective efforts to curb unbridled exercises of power. Although the volatility of shame—its potential to miss its target or to spread...