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Book SynopsisChapters 5, 12, and 18 of this work are available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International open access licence. These parts of the work are free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines is the first volume to bring together leading feminist thinkers from across the disciplines to explore the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and related data-driven technologies on human society. Recent years have seen both an explosion in AI systems and a corresponding rise in important critical analyses of these technologies. Central to these analyses has been feminist scholarship, which calls upon the AI sector to be accountable for designing and deploying AI in ways that further, rather than undermine, the pursuit of social justice. This book aims to be a touchstone text for AI researchers concerned with the social impact of thei
Trade ReviewA timely and critically important book which offers essential and original insights to deepen understandings around one of today's most pressing social concerns. * Rachel Adams, Research ICT Africa, South Africa *
The contributors' list includes an impressive array of notable scholars in feminist science and technology studies. These writers offer thoughtful critiques of the hype around artificial intelligence and useful insights about our posthuman world, one that is increasingly likely to be shaped by machine learning, algorithmic bias, and robotic labor. * Elizabeth Losh, William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia *
Includes a multiplicity of voices working from various axes of intersectional analysis. * Samantha Shorey, University of Texas at Austin *
A very high-quality book. * Kerry Holden, Queen Mary University London *
Table of Contents1: N. Katherine Hayles: Technosymbiosis: Figuring (Out) Our Relations to AI 2: Jason Edward Lewis, Noelani Arista, Archer Pechawis, and Suzanne Kite: Making Kin with the Machines 3: Apolline Taillandier: AI in a Different Voice: Rethinking Computers, Learning, and Gender Difference at MIT in the 1980s 4: Judy Wajcman and Erin Young: Feminism Confronts AI: The Gender Relations of Digitalisation 5: Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, Eleanor Drage and Kerry Mackereth: Shuri in the Sea of Dudes: the Cultural Construction of the AI Engineer 6: Lauren Wilcox: No Humans in the Loop: Killer Robots, Race and AI 7: Kerry Mackereth: Coding 'Carnal Knowledge' into Carceral Systems: A Feminist Abolitionist Approach to Predictive Policing 8: Lelia Marie Hampton: Techno Racial Capitalism: A Decolonial Black Feminist Marxist Perspective 9: Neda Atanasoski: Feminist Technofutures: Contesting the Ethics and Politics of Sex Robots and AI 10: Jennifer Rhee: From ELIZA to Alexa: Automated Care Labour and the Otherwise of Radical Care 11: Sareeta Amrute: Of Techno-Ethics and Techno-Affects 12: Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein: The False Binary of Reason and Emotion in Data Visualisation 13: Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Margaret Mitchell, and Alexander Todorov: Physiognomy's New Clothes 14: Michele Elam: Signs Taken for Wonders: AI, Art and the Matter of Race 15: Caroline Bassett: The Cruel Optimism of Technological Dreams: Thinking AI through Lauren Berlant 16: Eleanor Drage and Federica Frabetti: AI that Matters: A Feminist Approach to the Study of Intelligent Machines 17: Os Keyes: Automating Autism 18: Rune Nyrup, Charlene Chu and Elena Falco: Digital Ageism, Algorithmic Bias and Feminist Critical Theory 19: Jude Browne: AI & Structural Injustice: A Feminist Perspective 20: Neema Iyer, Garnett Achieng and Chenai Chair: Afrofeminist Data Futures 21: Sasha Costanza-Chock: Design Practices: Nothing About Us Without Us
