Artificial intelligence and its discontents: critiques from the social sciences and humanities
In: Social and cultural studies of robots and AI
On what basis can we challenge Artificial Intelligence (AI) - its infusion, investment,and implementation across the globe? This book answers this question bydrawing on a range of critical approaches from the social sciences and humanities,including posthumanism, ethics and human values, surveillance studies, Blackfeminism, and other strategies for social and political resistance. The authorsanalyse timely topics, including bias and language processing, responsibilityand machine learning, COVID-19 and AI in health technologies, bio-AI andnanotechnology, digital ethics, AI and the gig economy, representations of AI inliterature and culture, and many more. This book is for those who are currentlyworking in the field of AI critique and disruption as well as in AI development andprogramming. It is also for those who want to learn more about how to doubt,question, challenge, reject, reform and otherwise reprise AI as it been practicedand promoted