After a long time of neglect, Artificial Intelligence is once again at the center of most of our political, economic, and socio-cultural debates. Recent advances in the field of Artifical Neural Networks have led to a renaissance of dystopian and utopian speculations on an AI-rendered future. Algorithmic technologies are deployed for identifying potential terrorists through vast surveillance networks, for producing sentencing guidelines and recidivism risk profiles in criminal justice systems, for demographic and psychographic targeting of bodies for advertising or propaganda, and more generally for automating the analysis of language, text, and images. Against this background, the aim of this book is to discuss the heterogenous conditions, implications, and effects of modern AI and Internet technologies in terms of their political dimension: What does it mean to critically investigate efforts of net politics in the age of machine learning algorithms?
Price: $60.00
Pages: 334
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: KI-Kritik / AI Critique
Publication Date:
27 October 2019
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837647198
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship
»Eine ungewöhnlich perspektivenreiche Publikation.
Interessant [...] für Lehrende und Forschende, die nach neuen Denkanstößen suchen.«
Andreas Sudmann (PD Dr.) is a media scholar at the universities of Bochum and Bonn in Germany. His research interests include AI, digital cultures, media theory, history of media, and media critique.
Frontmatter 1
Content 5
The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence 9
Metaphors We Live By 33
AI, Stereotyping on Steroids and Alan Turing's Biological Turn 43
Productive Sounds 55
Algorithmic Trading, Artificial Intelligence and the Politics of Cognition 77
The Quest for Workable Data 95
Plural, Situated Subjects in the Critique of Artificial Intelligence 109
Deep Learning's Governmentality 123
Reduction and Participation 143
The Political Affinities of AI 163
Artificial Intelligence 175
Race and Computer Vision 189
Mapping the Democratization of AI on GitHub 209
On the Media-political Dimension of Artificial Intelligence 223
How to Safeguard AI 245
AI, Democracy and the Law 255
Rethinking the Knowledge Problem in an Era of Corporate Gigantism 285
Artificial Intelligence and the Democratization of Art 297
"That is a 1984 Orwellian future at our doorstep, right?" 313
Biographies 325
Acknowledgments 333
