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040 _beng
_cTUPM
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050 _aHM 851
_bL56 2024
100 _aLindgren, Simon
245 _aCritical theory of AI /
_cby Simon Lindgren
264 _aCambridge, UK:
_bPolity Press,
_cc2024.
300 _a209 pages:
_billustrations;
_c22 cm.
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
504 _aIncludes bibliographic references and index.
505 _aAI and critical theory AI assemblage Ideology behind AI Ideology within AI Social machines AI at work AI subjects AI in the loop
520 _aWe 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.
_bProvided by publisher
590 _aLindgren, S. (2024). Critical theory of AI. Polity Press.
650 _aArtificial intelligence
_xSocial aspects
650 _aCritical theory
650 _aData surveillance
650 _aAlgorithmic bias
650 _aTechnology and society
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