The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence: Net Politics in the Era of Learning Algorithms
Bielefeld: transcript (2019), 331 pp.
Contains illustrations
Series: AI Critique, 1
ISBN 978-3-8394-4719-2 (pdf); 978-3-8376-4719-8 (print)
"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?" (Publisher description)
"This volume is the first publication of a newly founded book series entitled “AI Critique”. It is based in part on contributions from an international conference that took place in Bochum in 2018 and that was generously funded by the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS)." (Acknowledgements, p.333)
The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence: Net Politics in the Era of Learning Algorithms / Andreas Sudmann, 9
Metaphors We Live By: Three Commentaries on Artificial Intelligence and the Human Condition / Anne Dippel, 33
AI, Stereotyping on Steroids and Alan Turing’s Biological Turn / V. N. Alexander, 43
Productive Sounds: Touch-Tone Dialing, the Rise of the Call Center Industry and the Politics of Virtual Voice Assistants / Axel Volmar, 55
Algorithmic Trading, Artificial Intelligence and the Politics of Cognition / Armin Beverungen, 77
The Quest for Workable Data: Building Machine Learning Algorithms from Public Sector Archives / Lisa Reutter, Hendrik Storstein Spilker, 95
Plural, Situated Subjects in the Critique of Artificial Intelligence / Tobias Matzner, 109
Deep Learning’s Governmentality: The Other Black Box / Jonathan Roberge, Kevin Morin, Marius Senneville, 123
Reduction and Participation / Stefan Rieger, 143
The Political Affinities of AI / Dan McQuillan, 163
Artificial Intelligence: Invisible Agencies in the Folds of Technological Cultures / Yvonne Förster, 175
Race and Computer Vision / Alexander Monea, 189
Mapping the Democratization of AI on GitHub: A First Approach / Marcus Burkhardt, 209
On the Media-political Dimension of Artificial Intelligence: Deep Learning as a Black Box and OpenAI / Andreas Sudmann, 223
How to Safeguard AI / Ina Schieferdecker, Jürgen Großmann, Martin A. Schneider, 245
AI, Democracy and the Law / Christian Djeffal, 255
Rethinking the Knowledge Problem in an Era of Corporate Gigantism / Frank Pasquale, 285
Artificial Intelligence and the Democratization of Art / Jens Schröter, 297
“That is a 1984 Orwellian future at our doorstep, right?“ Natural Language Processing, Artificial Neural Networks and the Politics of (Democratizing) AI / Andreas Sudmann, Alexander Waibel, 313
Metaphors We Live By: Three Commentaries on Artificial Intelligence and the Human Condition / Anne Dippel, 33
AI, Stereotyping on Steroids and Alan Turing’s Biological Turn / V. N. Alexander, 43
Productive Sounds: Touch-Tone Dialing, the Rise of the Call Center Industry and the Politics of Virtual Voice Assistants / Axel Volmar, 55
Algorithmic Trading, Artificial Intelligence and the Politics of Cognition / Armin Beverungen, 77
The Quest for Workable Data: Building Machine Learning Algorithms from Public Sector Archives / Lisa Reutter, Hendrik Storstein Spilker, 95
Plural, Situated Subjects in the Critique of Artificial Intelligence / Tobias Matzner, 109
Deep Learning’s Governmentality: The Other Black Box / Jonathan Roberge, Kevin Morin, Marius Senneville, 123
Reduction and Participation / Stefan Rieger, 143
The Political Affinities of AI / Dan McQuillan, 163
Artificial Intelligence: Invisible Agencies in the Folds of Technological Cultures / Yvonne Förster, 175
Race and Computer Vision / Alexander Monea, 189
Mapping the Democratization of AI on GitHub: A First Approach / Marcus Burkhardt, 209
On the Media-political Dimension of Artificial Intelligence: Deep Learning as a Black Box and OpenAI / Andreas Sudmann, 223
How to Safeguard AI / Ina Schieferdecker, Jürgen Großmann, Martin A. Schneider, 245
AI, Democracy and the Law / Christian Djeffal, 255
Rethinking the Knowledge Problem in an Era of Corporate Gigantism / Frank Pasquale, 285
Artificial Intelligence and the Democratization of Art / Jens Schröter, 297
“That is a 1984 Orwellian future at our doorstep, right?“ Natural Language Processing, Artificial Neural Networks and the Politics of (Democratizing) AI / Andreas Sudmann, Alexander Waibel, 313
