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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...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... at large scales as a given fact. As a field of prolific inquiry, much AI ethics invites critique for its often narrow selection of the normative issues under consideration, leaving the sustainability (both environmental and social) of AI underexplored, and overly propagating technological fixes...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... military's uses of autonomous drones, among (so) many other examples—it's important to also consider the AI industry's integration into existing mining and fossil fuel companies that have for centuries been destroying any kind of sustainable conditions for life on earth and foreclosing alternatives...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... in Africa,” identifies communal values, African notions of personhood, and the relationship between rights and duties in African contexts, and demonstrates their relationship to values of responsible computing in the Global North, such as openness, reproducibility, and sustainability. Chinasa T. Okolo...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... resulted in consumer-facing large language models (LLMs) that have problems with bias and truth and unclear social implications. Yet, once the models are out, they are rarely retracted. The result of passing on the technical debt of LLMs to users is a “moral hazard,” where companies are incentivized...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... in its industrial and networked forms. However, she also 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...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... by foregrounding key contributions from Australian scholars. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of researchers from qualitative social sciences, law, technology, and humanities, the anthology argues that the field of AI ethics functions as a preemptive response to the political critiques of widespread...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... a socially sustainable data ecosystem to flourish. The extraction of users’ data as they interact with generative tools extends the regimes of surveillance that began with the monetization of social media and search engines. Generative AI thus exacerbates already pressing concerns over surveillance...
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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 (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
..., materiality, and multisensory experience—can in this respect supplement Fourcade and Healey's critique by revealing unexpected imaginative possibilities built out of social materialities. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Duke University Press 2023...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
..., 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...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... and social values” (485)—namely, the largely white and middle-class virtues of white-collar and corporate structures. We propose that the metaphor of the black box as an opaque system is another example of how metaphorized interfaces import already existing power dynamics and ways of knowing into new...
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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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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... to the company's various social media accounts, all overdue for encouraging updates? We, the viewers of this promotional video for GrammarlyGO—a new algorithmic writing assistant powered by an “LLM” (large language model)—are meant to sympathize with the exhaustion of the corporate emailsmith. The solution...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... platforms that mediate billions of “person-to-person communications” has given rise to new and “historically unique” forms of entextualization : a data-creating process through which “ephemeral discourse is materialized into persistent media forms.” When users converse on social media, for instance...
