The Received Wisdom

Episode 17: The Next Big Science Policy and the Material Realities of AI ft. Kate Crawford

Jun 13, 2021

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Who Benefits From AI?

04:52

The Anatomy of AI Project

05:08

The Atlas of Artificial Intelligence

03:29

Introduction

2min

Technology Transfer Is Much More Complicated Than Just Getting People's Arms

2min

Is the Trips Waiver a Good Idea?

3min

Is China Open to a Natural Origin Zoonotic Virus?

4min

Is Bipartisanship a Barrier Meal for Bipartisan Policymaking?

3min

Innovation and Competition Act

2min

The Endless Frontier

5min

I Think the Proposal Will Likely Create Some Sort of New Technology Directorate Within the National Science Foundation

3min

The Atlas of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford

4min

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The Importance of Reconfiguring AI

2min

11.

The Anatomy of AI Project

5min

12.

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

3min

13.

The Enchantment of AI and the Mystification of Human Labor

2min

14.

The Atlas of Artificial Intelligence

3min

15.

Who Benefits From AI?

5min

16.

Is There a Social Contract for AI?

2min

17.

The Great Men of AI

2min

18.

What's the Equivalent of Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth?

3min

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Is There a Reflexive Capacity Within the Computer Science Community?

5min

20.

Space Colonization and Frontier Mining

5min

Shobita and Jack discuss the Innovation and Competition Act making its way through the US Congress as well as the most up-to-date geopolitics of COVID, including the TRIPS waiver and the "lab leak" theory. And we interview Kate Crawford, a leading scholar on the social and political implications of artificial intelligence.

- Kate Crawford (2021). Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, Yale University Press.
Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler (2018). Anatomy of an AI System.

- Alex Campolo and Kate Crawford (2020). "Enchanted Determinism: Power without Responsibility in Artificial Intelligence". Engaging Science, Technology, and Society. 6: 1-19.

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