BOOK: AI for everyone?

Another timely publication that has just come out (bonus: its open acces and free to download!). AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives, Westminster University Press.

What is the role of AI in society? What are its impacts on social inequalities?

The book offers a good combination of more abstract theoretical considerations (how we can think about AI through the lens of human-machine interaction); an analysis of normative thinking and myths around AI (what we see as desirable? what do we think AI does?); and finally, a number of chapters that directly address the relations between AI and inequality, including the use of biometrics, digital capitalism and digital labour, AI governance and data justice.

To read in conjunction with:

Algorithms of Opression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, NYU Press

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, Yale University Press.