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Record Nr.

UNINA9910433250703321

Titolo

The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence : Net Politics in the Era of Learning Algorithms / Andreas Sudmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020

2020, c2019

ISBN

9783839447192

3839447194

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Collana

KI-Kritik / AI Critique

Disciplina

006.301

Soggetti

Politics

Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning

Digital Technologies

Media Studies

Media Politics

Internet

Technology

Digital Media

Democracy

Sociology of Media

Media Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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?

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