Anthropology and AI

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-86619-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Anthropology of Now

Anthropology and AI explores the complex intersection of artificial intelligence and human society through a diverse collection of anthropological and social scientific perspectives.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating and permeating the everyday lives of people around the world in ways that are full of promise, perils, and potentials. How does anthropology respond to this? This timely volume brings together twelve carefully curated chapters examining AI’s many manifestations—from machine listening and engineers’ philosophies to large language models and conversational agents. Curated with a broad humanistic and social scientific audience in mind but firmly rooted within broader anthropological and STS conversations about humanity and technology, the contributions are situated on a broad spectrum of approaches to artificial intelligence, spanning theoretical, empirical, and applied social scientific research.

Anthropology and AI will appeal to students and researchers across anthropology, science and technology studies, digital humanities, and computer science who are interested in critical perspectives on emerging technologies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

VandenBroek, Angela K.

Koycheva, Lora

Artz, Matt

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Business Application Unternehmenssoftware
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: An Anthropological History of AI  Part I: Contexts & Frameworks 1. A Hinge for Ethnographic Interventions in AI Systems: Interlocking the Past, Present, and Future  2. Co-Becoming with AI: An Anthropological Framework for Equitable Human-AI Systems  3. The Mythical Speech of Artificial Intelligence: The Imaginary of an Autonomous Agency  4. “The Wind Under the Door:” Pareidolia and ChatGPT as a Feared and Welcome Guest  Part II: Critical Perspectives  5. The Bullshit Problem: Re-Thinking the Epistemic Stakes of Artificial Intelligence  6. Dissecting Speech: The “Acoustic-Linguistic Divide” in Artificial Intelligence 7. AI-powered Accessibility: Inclusive Co-design and Disability Expertise in AI-Powered Workplace Accessibility  Part III: Sociotechnical Interactions  8. Navigating the Uncanny Valley: How Conversation Designers Shape Human-AI Interaction  9. Partners in Conversation  10. From Present Tense to Future (Im)perfect: The Role of Anthropology in the Future of AI  Conclusion: Editorial Forum on The Futures of Anthropology and AI

Über Autor(innen)

Lora Koycheva is founder of Robots, actually! and Assistant Professor at the Chair of Technoscience Studies in Brandenburg Technical University, Germany.

Angela K. VandenBroek is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Texas State University, USA.

Matt Artz is the founder of Azimuth Labs and Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.