Critical AI:

Co-authored with Rita Raley

(excerpt) Critical AI, while recognizing the reductive, even absurd aspects of the term AI and the magical thinking it perpetuates, nonetheless allows for a kind of linguistic pragmatism, treating the term metonymically and engaging AI as an assemblage of technological arrangements and sociotechnical practices, as concept, ideology, and dispositif. This may seem to open up fairly quickly into the domain of critical thinking about computational culture and technology writ large, but there is a specificity and analytic precision in the focus on data, algorithms, model architectures, and the production of prediction. Critical AI, then, is itself a historical and epistemic formation.

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