Tag: AI
Mapping the Planetary Costs of AI: Kate Crawford’s Atlas of AI in Review
The very first thing to do when even considering employing AI is to look at the power infrastructure that produces it and makes its existence possible in the first place. As Crawford notes, AI is the result of extracting human life through data, raw materials, and labor.
A Hidden History and a Feminist Future: Redesigning the Role of Women in Technology
In general, when a field starts to have an economic value, the tendency of the capitalist system is to try to obtain a monopoly over it. And this is one of the major reasons why women were excluded from computer science.
The Master’s Tools
A society cannot be free unless its technologies support a free and democratic social life. As the black feminist Audre Lorde noted, “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”
Infocalypse or Cultural Renaissance? The Two Faces of Generative AI
The year 2023 marked a cultural revolution of a sort. For millions of people, artificial intelligence has become a part of everyday life and consciousness, shaping the way we understand and imagine our interactions and societies.