Dramatic statements about the promise and peril of artificial
intelligence for humanity abound, as an industry of experts claims
that AI is poised to reshape nearly every sphere of life. Who
profits from the idea that the age of AI has arrived? Why do ideas
of AI's transformative potential keep reappearing in social and
political discourse, and how are they linked to broader political
agendas? Yarden Katz reveals the ideology embedded in the concept
of artificial intelligence, contending that it both serves and
mimics the logic of white supremacy. He demonstrates that
understandings of AI, as a field and a technology, have shifted
dramatically over time based on the needs of its funders and the
professional class that formed around it. From its origins in the
Cold War military-industrial complex through its present-day
Silicon Valley proselytizers and eager policy analysts, AI has
never been simply a technical project enabled by larger data and
better computing. Drawing on intimate familiarity with the field
and its practices, Katz instead asks us to see how AI reinforces
models of knowledge that assume white male superiority and an
imperialist worldview. Only by seeing the connection between
artificial intelligence and whiteness can we prioritize
alternatives to the conception of AI as an all-encompassing
technological force. Bringing together theories of whiteness and
race in the humanities and social sciences with a deep
understanding of the history and practice of science and computing,
Artificial Whiteness is an incisive, urgent critique of the uses of
AI as a political tool to uphold social hierarchies.
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