Critical theory of AI / by Simon Lindgren

By:

Lindgren, Simon

Material type: Text

TextCambridge, UK: Polity Press, c2024Description: 209 pages: illustrations; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781509555772
9781509555765

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

HM 851 L56 2024

Contents:

AI and critical theory AI assemblage Ideology behind AI Ideology within AI Social machines AI at work AI subjects AI in the loop

Summary: We live in an age of artificial intelligence. Machines think and act in ever more complex ways, making suggestions and decisions on our behalf. While AI might be seen as practical and profitable, issues of data surveillance, algorithmic control, and sexist and racist bias persist. In this rapidly changing landscape, social analysis of AI risks getting scaled down to issues of 'ethics', 'responsibility', and 'fairness'. While these are important issues, they must be addressed not from an 'AI first' perspective, but more thoroughly in terms of power and contention. Approaching artificial intelligence from the often overlooked perspective of critical social theory, this book provides a much-needed intervention on how both old and new theories conceptualize the social consequences of AI. Questions are posed about the ideologies driving AI, the mythologies surrounding AI, and the complex relationship between AI and power. Simon Lindgren provides a way of defining AI as an object of social and political critique, and guides the reader through a set of contentious areas where AI and politics intersect. In relation to these topics, critical theories are drawn upon, both as an argument for and an illustration of how AI can be critiqued. Provided by publisher

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	TUP Manila Library	Graduate Program Section-2F	GS HM 851 L56 2024 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P00034558

Includes bibliographic references and index.

AI and critical theory
AI assemblage
Ideology behind AI
Ideology within AI
Social machines
AI at work
AI subjects
AI in the loop

We live in an age of artificial intelligence. Machines think and act in ever more complex ways, making suggestions and decisions on our behalf. While AI might be seen as practical and profitable, issues of data surveillance, algorithmic control, and sexist and racist bias persist. In this rapidly changing landscape, social analysis of AI risks getting scaled down to issues of 'ethics', 'responsibility', and 'fairness'. While these are important issues, they must be addressed not from an 'AI first' perspective, but more thoroughly in terms of power and contention. Approaching artificial intelligence from the often overlooked perspective of critical social theory, this book provides a much-needed intervention on how both old and new theories conceptualize the social consequences of AI. Questions are posed about the ideologies driving AI, the mythologies surrounding AI, and the complex relationship between AI and power. Simon Lindgren provides a way of defining AI as an object of social and political critique, and guides the reader through a set of contentious areas where AI and politics intersect. In relation to these topics, critical theories are drawn upon, both as an argument for and an illustration of how AI can be critiqued. Provided by publisher

Lindgren, S. (2024). Critical theory of AI. Polity Press.

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