Overview
- Draws on a range of critical approaches across the social sciences
- Analyses timely topics, including bias and language processing, responsibility and machine learning COVID-19
- An invaluable reference for those working in the field of AI critique and disruption
Part of the book series: Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI (SOCUSRA)
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About this book
On what basis can we challenge Artificial Intelligence (AI) - its infusion, investment,
and implementation across the globe? This book answers this question by
drawing on a range of critical approaches from the social sciences and humanities,
including posthumanism, ethics and human values, surveillance studies, Black
feminism, and other strategies for social and political resistance. The authors
analyse timely topics, including bias and language processing, responsibility
and machine learning, COVID-19 and AI in health technologies, bio-AI and
nanotechnology, digital ethics, AI and the gig economy, representations of AI in
literature and culture, and many more. This book is for those who are currently
working in the field of AI critique and disruption as well as in AI development and
programming. 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 practiced
and promoted.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Media and Language
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Governance
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Back Matter
Reviews
“The book offers a number of useful critiques of AI as it interacts with increasing numbers of Internet users. Readers should take the Marxist perspectives with a grain of salt.” (G. R. Mayforth, Computing Reviews, October 19, 2022)
“All of the chapters are well written and the editorial process was clearly very good. … I found four essays particularly noteworthy … . If you are limited on time, these core essays are must-reads. I found this book interesting because it disclosed to me what others outside the computational science community see.” (Anthony J. Duben, Computing Reviews, July 20, 2022)
“All of the chapters are well written and the editorial process was clearly very good. … I found four essays particularly noteworthy … . If you are limited on time, these core essays are must-reads. I found this book interesting because it disclosed to me what others outside the computational science community see.” (Anthony J. Duben, Computing Reviews, July 20, 2022)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Ariane Hanemaayer is Associate Professor at Brandon University and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge. She is also Author of The Impossible Clinic: A critical sociology of evidence based medicine.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents
Book Subtitle: Critiques from the Social Sciences and Humanities
Editors: Ariane Hanemaayer
Series Title: Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88615-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88614-1Published: 02 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88617-2Published: 03 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88615-8Published: 01 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-8523
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8531
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 275
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology, general, Human Geography, Sociology of Culture, Digital Humanities, Computer Applications, History of Technology