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CRITICAL THEORY OF AI - SIMON LINDGREN KARTONIE...

We live in an age of artificial intelligence (AI). Machines think and act in ever more complex
ways  increasingly making prognoses  suggestions  and decisions on our behalf. Whilst AI might
be seen as practical and profitable  issues of data surveillance  algorithmic control  and
sexist and racist bias persist. In this rapidly changing landscape  social analysis of AI risks
getting scaled down to issues of 'ethics'  'responsibility' and 'fairness'. While these are
important issues  they must be addressed not from an 'AI first' perspective  but more
thoroughly in terms of power and contention. In this book  AI is approached from the
perspective of critical social theory - an often-muted voice in this discussion. It provides a
much-needed intervention on how both old and new social theories aid in approaching and
conceptualising the social consequences of AI. It poses questions about the ideologies driving
AI  the mythologies surrounding AI  and the complex relationship between AI and power. Simon
Lindgren  a leading scholar of digital technology and society  provides a way of defining AI as
an object of social and political critique  and guides the reader through a set of contentious
areas where AI and politics intersect. In relation to all of these areas  critical theories are
drawn upon both as an argument for and an illustration of how AI can be critiqued. Given the
opportunities and challenges of AI  this book is a must-read for students and scholars in the
humanities  social sciences and STEM disciplines.

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