Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents -

Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents

Critiques from the Social Sciences and Humanities

Ariane Hanemaayer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
XV, 275 Seiten
2022 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-88614-1 (ISBN)
128,39 inkl. MwSt

On what basis can we challenge Artificial Intelligence (AI) - its infusion, investment, 

and implementation across the globe? This book answers this question by 

drawing on a range of critical approaches from the social sciences and humanities, 

including posthumanism, ethics and human values, surveillance studies, Black 

feminism, and other strategies for social and political resistance. The authors 

analyse timely topics, including bias and language processing, responsibility 

and machine learning, COVID-19 and AI in health technologies, bio-AI and 

nanotechnology, digital ethics, AI and the gig economy, representations of AI in 

literature and culture, and many more. This book is for those who are currently 

working in the field of AI critique and disruption as well as in AI development and 

programming. It is also for those who want to learn more about how to doubt, 

question, challenge, reject, reform and otherwise reprise AI as it been practiced 

and promoted. 

Ariane Hanemaayer is an Associate Professor at Brandon University and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge. She is also author of The Impossible Clinic: A critical sociology of evidence based medicine.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Critical Insights: Bringing the social sciences and humanities to AI.- Section I: Posthumanism.- Chapter 2: Virtually Grown Up: Artificial Intelligence in Youth Fiction.- Chapter 3: The Feminized Robot: Labour and Harawayan Afterlives.- Section II: Human values.- Chapter 4: AI's fast and furtive spread by infusion into technologies that are already in use - a critical assessment.- Chapter 5: Dumbwaiters & Smartphones: The Responsibility of Intelligence.- Section III: Media and Language.- Chapter 6: Artificial Intelligence: a medium that hides its nature.- Chapter 7: Gender Bias in Machine Translation Systems.- Section IV: Governance.- Chapter 8: Not Anytime Soon: The clinical translation of nanorobots.- Chapter 9: Controversial Covid-19 contact-tracing app in India: digital self-defence, governance and surveillance.- Chapter 10: Intelligent Justice': AI Implementations in China's Legal Systems.- Section V: Resistance.- Chapter 11: Artificial Intelligence between Oppression and Resistance: Black Feminist Perspectives on Emerging Technologies.- Chapter 12: AI Ruined the Internet - and Everything Else: A manifesto.- Index.

"The book offers a number of useful critiques of AI as it interacts with increasing numbers of Internet users. Readers should take the Marxist perspectives with a grain of salt." (G. R. Mayforth, Computing Reviews, October 19, 2022)
"All of the chapters are well written and the editorial process was clearly very good. ... I found four essays particularly noteworthy ... . If you are limited on time, these core essays are must-reads. I found this book interesting because it disclosed to me what others outside the computational science community see." (Anthony J. Duben, Computing Reviews, July 20, 2022)

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI
Zusatzinfo XV, 275 p. 6 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 508 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte AI • AI and society • AI Criticism • AI governance • AI History • Artificial Intelligence • critical race theory • Surveillance Studies
ISBN-10 3-030-88614-X / 303088614X
ISBN-13 978-3-030-88614-1 / 9783030886141
Zustand Neuware
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