The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence: Net Politics in the Era of Learning Algorithms

book: The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2019

The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence

Net Politics in the Era of Learning Algorithms

Edited by: Andreas Sudmann
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2019: Frontlist Collection

Volume 1 in the series KI-Kritik

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839447192

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About this book

The recent explosion in interest in both the democratization of data and artificial intelligence (AI) brings important questions to the fore: How democratic is AI? How to explore the political aspects of modern machine learning if many computer scientists consider AI technologies a black box fundamentally opaque to human understanding? And how does this affect questions of accountability and political agency?
This timely collection discusses the complex political dimensions of internet and AI technologies, seeking to elucidate possible avenues of democratizing AI. This includes technological strategies such as an 'Explainable AI', but also the questions of political and/or critical concepts which guide the technological process of making modern AI technology more accessible as well as suitable ways of democratizing AI beyond a purely abstract understanding of transparency and accountability.

Author / Editor information

Andreas Sudmann teaches media studies at Ruhr-University Bochum. Currently, he is working as visiting professor at Philipps-University Marburg. His research revolves around aesthetic, political and philosophical questions on digital and popular media in general and AI-driven technologies in particular.

Reviews

»Eine ungewöhnlich perspektivenreiche Publikation.
Interessant [...] für Lehrende und Forschende, die nach neuen Denkanstößen suchen.«
Alexander Godulla, Communicatio Socialis, 4 (2020)

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Content Open Access Download PDF	5
The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence Net Politics in the Era of Learning Algorithms Andreas Sudmann Open Access Download PDF	9
Metaphors We Live By Three Commentaries on Artificial Intelligence and the Human Condition Anne Dippel Open Access Download PDF	33
AI, Stereotyping on Steroids and Alan Turing’s Biological Turn V. N. Alexander Open Access Download PDF	43
Productive Sounds Touch-Tone Dialing, the Rise of the Call Center Industry and the Politics of Virtual Voice Assistants Axel Volmar Open Access Download PDF	55
Algorithmic Trading, Artificial Intelligence and the Politics of Cognition Armin Beverungen Open Access Download PDF	77
The Quest for Workable Data Building Machine Learning Algorithms from Public Sector Archives Lisa Reutter and Hendrik Storstein Spilker Open Access Download PDF	95
Plural, Situated Subjects in the Critique of Artificial Intelligence Tobias Matzner Open Access Download PDF	109
Deep Learning’s Governmentality The Other Black Box Jonathan Roberge, Kevin Morin and Marius Senneville Open Access Download PDF	123
Reduction and Participation Stefan Rieger Open Access Download PDF	143
The Political Affinities of AI Dan McQuillan Open Access Download PDF	163
Artificial Intelligence Invisible Agencies in the Folds of Technological Cultures Yvonne Förster Open Access Download PDF	175
Race and Computer Vision Alexander Monea Open Access Download PDF	189
Mapping the Democratization of AI on GitHub A First Approach Marcus Burkhardt Open Access Download PDF	209
On the Media-political Dimension of Artificial Intelligence Deep Learning as a Black Box and OpenAI Andreas Sudmann Open Access Download PDF	223
How to Safeguard AI Ina Schieferdecker, Jürgen Großmann and Martin A. Schneider Open Access Download PDF	245
AI, Democracy and the Law Christian Djeffal Open Access Download PDF	255
Rethinking the Knowledge Problem in an Era of Corporate Gigantism Frank Pasquale Open Access Download PDF	285
Artificial Intelligence and the Democratization of Art Jens Schröter Open Access Download PDF	297
“That is a 1984 Orwellian future at our doorstep, right?“ Natural Language Processing, Artificial Neural Networks and the Politics of (Democratizing) AI Andreas Sudmann and Alexander Waibel Open Access Download PDF	313
Biographies Open Access Download PDF	325
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	333

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 334
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Digital Technologies; Media Studies; Media Politics; Internet; Technology; Digital Media; Democracy; Sociology of Media; Media Philosophy

eBook

Published: October 27, 2019
ISBN: 9783839447192