Duke University Press - Critical AI
Making AI Philosophical Again: On Philip E. Agre’s Legacy
Synthography – An Invitation to Reconsider the Rapidly Changing
With the comprehensive application of Artificial Intelligence into the creation and post production of images, it seems questionable if the resulting visualisations can still be considered ‘photographs’ in a classical sense – drawing with light....
Silicon Valley’s vision for AI? It’s religion, repackaged.
It’s no accident — the intertwining of religion and technology is centuries old.
Unmasking AI by Joy Buolamwini: 9780593241837 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls. “Dr. Joy Buolamwini...
Metaphors for designers working with AI
"VC qanon" and the radicalization of the tech tycoons - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
AI and Ethics
The AI Power Paradox: Can States Learn to Govern Artificial Intelligence—Before It’s Too Late?
Can States Learn to Govern Artificial Intelligence—Before It’s Too Late?
Making Kin with the Machines
Essay Competition Winner
The Model Is The Message | NOEMA
The debate over whether LaMDA is sentient or not overlooks important issues that will frame debates about intelligence, sentience, language and human-AI interaction in the coming years.
AI can be a force for good or ill in society, so everyone must shape it, not just the ‘tech guys’ | Afua Bruce
Although designers do have a lot of power, AI is just a tool conceived to benefit us. Communities must make sure that happens, says author Afua Bruce
Pluralistic: “Open” “AI” isn’t (18 August 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
AI By the People, For the People
This startup wants to help millions of people whose languages are marginalized online gain better access to AI tools
Generative ai rapport 2023
Datasheets for Datasets
Documentation to facilitate communication between dataset creators and consumers.
The Subjects and Stages of AI Dataset Development: A Framework for Dataset Accountability
There has been increased attention toward the datasets that are used to train and build AI technologies from the computer science and social science research co
The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence | NOEMA
Supporting transnational worker organizing should be at the center of the fight for “ethical AI.”
What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing | NOEMA
While AI can speed up the writing process, it doesn’t optimize quality — and it endangers our sense of connection to ourselves and others.
As actors and writers push back on automation, Hollywood is in the midst of an AI hiring boom
Amid a pair of Hollywood strikes that have found screenwriters and actors questioning the rise of artificial intelligence, studios and streaming companies are bulking up on AI staff.
How elite schools like Stanford became fixated on the AI apocalypse
"More recently, wealthy tech philanthropists have begun recruiting an army of elite college students to prioritize the fight against rogue AI over other threats. Open Philanthropy alone has funneled nearly half a billion dollars into developing a pipeline of talent to fight rogue AI, building a scaffolding of think tanks, YouTube channels, prize competitions, grants, research funding and scholarships — as well as a new fellowship that can pay student leaders as much as $80,000 a year, plus tens of thousands of dollars in expenses."
How (Not) to Look at AI Art
When we have the power to ask for anything, what will we choose?
Waag | Abdo Hassan on cultivating joyful resistance
The countdown has begun for The PublicSpaces Conference: For a Collective Internet, set to take place on June 27 and 28. Emma Yedema, editor and producer at PublicSpaces, sat down with Abdo Hassan for an interview.
Risk and Harm: Unpacking Ideologies in the AI Discourse
Last March, there was a very interesting back-and-forth on AI regulation between the Future of Life Institute (FLI) and the Distributed AI Research (DAIR) institute. We analyzed the language and rhetorics in the two letters and we teased out fundamental ideological differences between DAIR and FLI. We are concerned about problematic ethical views connected with longtermism entering the mainstream by means of public campaigns such as FLI's, and we offer two analytical lenses (Existential Risk, Ongoing Harm) for assessing them.
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Design for AI
Part 1 # Models, Views, Controllers # Model View Controller is a server architecture model invented at Xerox Parc in the late 70s. Initially, a system to implement graphic user interfaces for the desktop machine; it is now the core of practically...
9 ways to see a Dataset
To further the understanding of training data, the Knowing Machines Project developed SeeSet, an investigative tool for examining the training datasets for AI. Here you will find nine essays from individual members of our team. Each one uses SeeSet to explore a key AI dataset and its role in the construction of 'ground truth.'
Conversation Starters: How Can We Misunderstand AI Better? | Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems