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Record Nr.

UNINA9910433250703321

Autore

Sudmann Andreas

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2019

ISBN

3-8394-4719-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Collana

KI-Kritik / AI Critique ; 1

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 Artificial 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?

»Eine ungewöhnlich perspektivenreiche Publikation.  Interessant [...] für Lehrende und Forschende, die nach neuen Denkanstößen suchen.«  Alexander Godulla, Communicatio Socialis, 4 (2020)