Media theorist, and long-time DIGSUM collaborator, Pieter Verdegem of the University of Westminster, UK, will give a talk in Umeå University’s #frAIday series this Friday. The talk is based on the new edited book AI for Everyone? which is free to download (open access).
Register to get the Zoom link here.
We are entering a new era of technological determinism and solutionism in which governments and business actors are seeking data-driven change, assuming that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now inevitable and ubiquitous. But we have not even started asking the right questions, let alone developed an understanding of the consequences.
What we need is critical perspectives on AI: what it is and what it is not; what type of AI we need, what visions exist about this and who is behind them; and ultimately, how to think and talk about AI power and inequalities.
In this talk, I give an introduction to the book AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives. This book brings together critical interrogations of what constitutes AI, its impact and its inequalities in order to offer an analysis of what it means for AI to deliver benefits for everyone.