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Review: Kate Crawford’s “Atlas of AI” | Chapter 4: Classification
In the introductory pages of The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, Kate Crawford describes artificial intelligence as a political “registry of power” (p. 8) that is simultaneously symbolic and material in nature. Stemming from the fifteenth-century term for describing an official account, “registry” implies an essence of formality…
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Review: Kate Crawford’s “Atlas of AI” | Chapter 6: State
In its January 2024 AI forecast, AI think tank and Forbes contributor Cognitive World declared that, according to Google Trends, “even with all of the hype that AI has gotten in the past decade or so,” internet searches around the topic have “positively exploded in the search interest in the past twelve months” (Schmelzer 2024).…
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Review of “Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence” | Chapter 2: Labor
The “Atlas of AI” by Kate Crawford comes at a pivotal time for the future of AI as it provides a comprehensive exploration of the societal impacts and ethical considerations surrounding artificial intelligence (AI). At a time when AI technologies are rapidly advancing and becoming deeply integrated into various aspects of our lives, understanding their…
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Collaborative Book Review of “Data Feminism” | Chapter 1: The Power Chapter
This is a review of Chapter 1 of “Data Feminism” by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, 2020, this was done as a part of the Collaborative Book Review Project with a great group of HASTAC Scholars. To learn more about the project and see previous collaborative book review check out the collection here, and…
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On Tools and Ploughshares: A Review of “Chapter 7: Power” in Kate Crawford’s “Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence”
Crawford, K. (2021). Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press. Preface: Approaching This Review “We are told to focus on the innovative nature of the method rather than on what is primary: the purpose of the thing itself” (Crawford, 2021, p. 214) Kate Crawford’s (2021) Atlas of…
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Review: Chapter 2 of Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, Data Feminism. The MIT Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780262358521 ISBN: 0262358522 Chapter Reviewed: Chapter 2 Reviewed by: Hannah Mendro, hsmendro@uw.edu Chapter 2 of Data Feminism, “Collect, Analyze, Imagine, Teach,” focuses its attention on the creation and development of projects which gather and work with data. In a world where data…
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Review: Introduction of The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford
Kate Crawford, The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. 1, 327. ISBN 9780300209570, 9780300264630. Chapter reviewed: Introduction Reviewed by: Hannah Mendro, hsmendro@uw.edu In an increasingly technological world, and particularly with the advances in machine learning technology that have become so prevalent in the last…
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Review: “Data Feminism” by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
D’Ignazio, Catherine and Lauren F. Klein. 2020. Data Feminism. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Review by Abby Cole Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein’s (2020) Data Feminism serves as a comprehensive introduction to feminist theory and scholars, marking it an essential read for anyone interested in applying a feminist method to their work. However, as journalists…