Artificial Whiteness : : Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence / / Yarden Katz.
Dramatic statements about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence for humanity abound, as an industry of experts claims that AI is poised to reshape nearly every sphere of life. Who profits from the idea that the age of AI has arrived? Why do ideas of AI’s transformative potential keep reap...
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Katz, Yarden, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Artificial Whiteness : Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence / Yarden Katz. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource : 25 b&w figures text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- I FORMATION -- 1 In the Service of Empire -- 2 In the Service of Capital -- II SELF AND THE SOCIAL ORDER -- 3 Epistemic Forgeries and Ghosts in the Machine -- 4 Adaptation, Not Abolition: Critical AI Experts and Carceral- Positive Logic -- 5 Artificial Whiteness -- III ALTERNATIVES -- 6 Dissenting Visions: From Autopoietic Love to Embodied War -- 7 A Generative Refusal -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Dramatic statements about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence for humanity abound, as an industry of experts claims that AI is poised to reshape nearly every sphere of life. Who profits from the idea that the age of AI has arrived? Why do ideas of AI’s transformative potential keep reappearing in social and political discourse, and how are they linked to broader political agendas?Yarden Katz reveals the ideology embedded in the concept of artificial intelligence, contending that it both serves and mimics the logic of white supremacy. He demonstrates that understandings of AI, as a field and a technology, have shifted dramatically over time based on the needs of its funders and the professional class that formed around it. From its origins in the Cold War military-industrial complex through its present-day Silicon Valley proselytizers and eager policy analysts, AI has never been simply a technical project enabled by larger data and better computing. Drawing on intimate familiarity with the field and its practices, Katz instead asks us to see how AI reinforces models of knowledge that assume white male superiority and an imperialist worldview. Only by seeing the connection between artificial intelligence and whiteness can we prioritize alternatives to the conception of AI as an all-encompassing technological force.Bringing together theories of whiteness and race in the humanities and social sciences with a deep understanding of the history and practice of science and computing, Artificial Whiteness is an incisive, urgent critique of the uses of AI as a political tool to uphold social hierarchies. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) Artificial intelligence Moral and ethical aspects. Artificial intelligence Political aspects. Electronic books. Imperialism and science. Logic Political aspects. Male domination (Social structure). White supremacy movements Philosophy. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. bisacsh AI. Artificial Intelligence. history of computing. history of technology. white supremacy. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110710977 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2020 English 9783110704723 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology, Education, Psychology 2020 9783110704549 ZDB-23-SEW https://doi.org/10.7312/katz19490 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231551076 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231551076/original |
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