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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... National University (ANU). Costanza-Chock is a renowned researcher and designer known for their work on social movement networks, transformative media organizing, and design justice. She is the author of Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the World We Need (MIT Press, 2020). Costanza-Chock...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
...Kyle Booten Abstract This article argues that it is essential to design algorithmic systems that help us think instead of thinking for us. The aim of the article is to give some sense of how broad and diverse is the design space of interactive systems that use computation to challenge writers...
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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...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... generated; coercion, in that architectures, datasets, algorithms, and the like are controlled by designers and platforms rather than users; systemic privacy violations; and the absence of academic freedom covering corporation-based research, such that results can be hyped in accordance with business...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
..., data universalism, and unintentional criti-hype. As the authors touch upon each contribution to this special issue, they call for critical AI studies to forge an interdisciplinary community of practice, alert to ontological commitments, design justice principles, and spaces of dissensus. The topic...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... epistemology. This article discusses the sociolinguistic implications of LLM design and implementation. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Britta Schneider 2024 sociolinguistics linguistic anthropology constructivism language ideology language as social practice A definition...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... glitches but are instead a by-product of the design of the transformer architecture on which large language models are built, given its foundation on the distributional hypothesis, a nonreferential approach to meaning. Even when outputs are correct, they do not meet the basic epistemic criterion...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... and illuminate the effects of their “generative” capacities—particularly the troubling divergences between how these models came into being, how they are currently developed, and how they are marketed. The evolution of LLMs and of their deployment as chatbots was not rooted in the design of interactive systems...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
..., and reviews that make up part 1 of this two-part special issue (along with some of the content for part 2). Although large language models (LLMs) are marketed as scientific wonders, they were not designed to function as either reliable interactive systems or robust tools for supporting human communication...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... as telecenters and LAN houses, which were designed to mediate digital inequality. At the telecenters, the general public had free access to internet-connected computers. The LAN houses were privately owned centers with no connection to the government, and like many cybercafés, they charged for use of internet...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
...). This is the risk that an AI system will escape from the control of human beings and begin to achieve its “own” objectives (whether because such objectives were inadvertently incentivized by design or because they emerged from the complex and opaque web of AI system connections) (Russell and Norvig 2016 ). Freed...
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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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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... aspects of the work.” Reading LLM outputs as fictions would have the virtue of focusing us on the question of the truth value of their details, allowing us to treat such outputs provisionally, as opposed to as reliable information. One might ask: If designating LLM outputs as fictions doesn't...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... not be reduced to a term so pejorative as Wasielewski's computational formalism ? The challenge ahead is, if possible, to design machine vision approaches that can account for the nuance and precision that animates the study of art history today—a topic that will resonate with those following debates over...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... pipeline is designed to translate the radical polysemy of the photographic image into a stable and transparent form of data that can be portrayed as a neutral or “representative” proxy of human vision. As we show, the experimental practices of Li and her colleagues were instrumental in developing modes...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... generative AI has begun to mount, driven partly by technology companies that have long perceived education as a lucrative market. The designers of these commercial projects did not consult with educators or students or, indeed, engage in dialogue with domain experts outside the AI industry and its preferred...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... of Conversation Design from ELIZA to Alexa .” Post45 , March 27 . https://post45.org/2023/03/the-programming-era/ . Hao, Karen . 2019 . “ Training a Single AI Model Can Emit as Much Carbon as Five Cars in Their Lifetime .” MIT Technology Review , June 6 . https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/06...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... of an explosion of public debate about AI. While often brilliantly argued, exposés and critical works can leave a pragmatic reader like myself wondering, OK, so how do we take action? And, as a former software developer, I also wonder, When does the path toward equity involve technical design and development...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... to look at the question of what could go wrong. I really appreciate the body of work that gets called value sensitive design. It's a school of thought that's identifying who's impacted by the use of technology. Obviously, the person using it, but who else is having their life experience shaped...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
..., what becomes of Popper's warning? Has the threat of totalizing political ideology been replaced by the (in many ways bathetic) threat of poorly designed AI products? It is more likely that those two aspects of the contemporary world have joined to create a new kind of threat, but it is nevertheless...
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