The Democratization Of Artificial Intelligence: Net Politics In The Era Of Learning Algorithms

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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? Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 2 Title - Full......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Content......Page 6 The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence......Page 10 Metaphors We Live By......Page 34 AI, Stereotyping on Steroids and Alan Turing’s Biological Turn......Page 44 Productive Sounds......Page 56 Algorithmic Trading, Artificial Intelligence and the Politics of Cognition......Page 78 The Quest for Workable Data......Page 96 Plural, Situated Subjects in the Critique of Artificial Intelligence......Page 110 Deep Learning’s Governmentality......Page 124 Reduction and Participation......Page 144 The Political Affinities of AI......Page 164 Artificial Intelligence......Page 176 Race and Computer Vision......Page 190 Mapping the Democratization of AI on GitHub......Page 210 On the Media-political Dimension of Artificial Intelligence......Page 224 How to Safeguard AI......Page 246 AI, Democracy and the Law......Page 256 Rethinking the Knowledge Problem in an Era of Corporate Gigantism......Page 286 Artificial Intelligence and the Democratization of Art......Page 298 “That is a 1984 Orwellian future at our doorstep, right?“......Page 314 Biographies......Page 326 Acknowledgments......Page 334