Tag: HASTAC Scholars
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Review: The Atlas of AI
This volume sets out to explore how artificial intelligence is produced, winding its way through the various historical, cultural, economic, and political forces that inform and shape this process.
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Chapter Review of “Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence” by Kate Crawford | Chapter 3: Data.
Chapter 3 focuses on the pivotal role Data – which the author explains in the driving force of AI today – plays in AI systems. In this chapter, Crawford critiques the extraction, methods, and use of data in AI systems (mainly computer vision systems), highlighting the complexities and challenges associated with the widespread use of […]
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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 […]