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Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... fundamentally—of the many millions of people and communities subject to copyright infringement, nonconsensual use of data, bias, environmental harms, and the low-wage and high-stress modes of “human in the loop” through which systems for probabilistic mimicry improve their performance in an imitation game...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... linguistics in the thick of the AI winter. When I was in college, the computer scientists around me would joke that AI was anything that a computer couldn't do yet. And soon as you built the program to do it, then it wasn't AI anymore. And very few people said they were working on AI. It didn't attract VC...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... decades. It is a pretty phenomenal event where people come from many different types of media and cultural work—technologists and designers, community organizers, software developers and coders, activists and filmmakers—to share ideas, build networks, launch new initiatives, and skill-share theory...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... councils,” “people's councils,” and “solidarity” as solutions to the problems created by digital technology in general and machine learning in particular. All of these formulations are described as if those to whom they gesture—“workers” and “people”—do not want to see fascist technologies developed...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... digital technologies in their quest to liberate themselves and regain their humanity?” (7). How do people outside the centers of technological and social power use materials and knowledge from professional technoscience for their own kind of sociotechnical production? Can digital technologies serve...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
..., and critiques of top-k as a surefire measure of accuracy. The only chapter in this section that left me with unanswered questions was the eighth, “Double-Edged Visualization Sword.” Marshall critiques an easy reliance on “pretty pictures” and rightly points out that visualization can exclude disabled people...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... in his 1963 follow-up essay, which is included in The Two Cultures: And a Second Look : “It seems to me better that people should live rather than die: that they shouldn't be hungry: that they shouldn't have to watch their children die. Here, if anywhere, we are members one of another. If we...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... data sets and computation (also known as “compute”), these resources are much more plentiful than enriched uranium. Thus, whereas few people have the capacity to build nuclear weapons, many more people—and potentially automated systems themselves—can build (or replicate) large models. Another...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... life affect their status. To answer these questions, Botting turns not to science or philosophy but to fiction, especially the works of Mary Shelley. Probably no single text has influenced how people think about artificial life and artificial intelligence as profoundly as Shelley's 1818 masterpiece...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... signatory of the letter, is both board member and major sponsor. 4 Although the long list of signatures included many people who simply seized an opportunity to support regulation, Future of Life's letter foregrounds the priorities of tech leaders who, like Musk himself, dramatize the supposedly...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
...' responsible AI maturity” such as “updates” on “data transparency.” Prediction surfaces in the humanizing claim that “people look to AI to address global issues ranging from disease detection to natural disaster prediction.” Enshrouding data in a nimbus of reassuring nouns (“transparency,” “maturity...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... is a canonical example: it wasn't built to scale. The developers wrote it quickly in a popular software framework (Ruby on Rails), got it running, and people started to use it. But Ruby on Rails is built for speed (“on rails”), not scale. So the early days of Twitter were marked by the friendly “fail whale...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
...)—that is, the tendency of people to project humanlike status onto computational systems that articulate even minimally sensible language—our analysis demystifies the functionalities of these statistical leviathans and explores the effects of their “generative” capacities. Throughout this discussion, we emphasize...
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Journal Article
Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... Tradition. Notable anthropological theorists of postcolonial approaches to capitalism include Haitian anthropologist Michael-Rolf Trouillot (see, e.g., his collected works in Trouillot 2021 ). 4. For Fourcade and Healy (2016: 17), as for us, Bourdieu's account of “people's differentiated...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... to deliver a revolution in “interactive” education, nonetheless. At Hello History, we believe that history should be alive and accessible to everyone. To that end, we use cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology to create interactive experiences that allow people to engage and learn from...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... ), and the historical critique and retrieval of structuralism developed by Marshall Sahlins ( 1985 : 149), whose concept of referential risk seems particularly appropriate to this conversation: In action, people put their concepts and categories into ostensive relations to the world. Such referential uses bring...
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Journal Article
Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... sees shame in a more positive light and insists on its potential to do social good. Reference points for shame's positive uses are the clown rituals of the Pueblo people in the American Southwest. In such rituals, behavior that transgresses community norms is mocked to produce compliance and bring...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
.... Gunkel, who has published extensively on Phaedrus 's relevance to new media (e.g., Gunkel 2016 : 22–58), takes the subtle approach of “remixing” Plato's text so that it is about OpenAI's GPT-4: “You have invented a drug [ pharmakon ] not of wisdom, but of hallucination; and you offer the people...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... and its effects on people who perform this work” (7). It further develops ideas that the editors introduced in their 2021 coauthored article “Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of Ethics in Big Tech.” In this context, the volume's key contributions are its specific case studies and, more importantly...
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