AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London University of Westminster Press 2021
• Subjects: algorithms; Artificial intelligence; Computer science; Computing and Information Technology; Cybernetics and systems theory; Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guides; good data; Graphical and digital media applications; Impact of science and technology on society; Information theory; Internet guides and online services; machine learning; Mathematics and Science; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; Science: general issues; social justice; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; solutionism
• ISBN: 1914386159; 1914386140; 1914386167; 9781914386145; 9781914386169; 9781914386152
• DOI: 10.16997/book55

We are entering a new era of technological determinism and solutionism in which governments and business actors are seeking data-driven change, assuming that Artificial Intelligence is now inevitable and ubiquitous. But we have not even started asking the right questions, let alone developed an understanding of the consequences. Urgently needed is debate that asks and answers fundamental questions about power. This book brings together critical interrogations of what constitutes AI, its impact and its inequalities in order to offer an analysis of what it means for AI to deliver benefits for everyone. The book is structured in three parts: Part 1, AI: Humans vs. Machines, presents critical perspectives on human-machine dualism. Part 2, Discourses and Myths About AI, excavates metaphors and policies to ask normative questions about what is ‘desirable’ AI and what conditions make this possible. Part 3, AI Power and Inequalities, discusses how the implementation of AI creates important challenges that urgently need to be addressed. Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and regional contexts, this book offers a vital intervention on one of the most hyped concepts of our times.