Ethics and AI Classification: Power, Bias, and the Technical Worldview.
This article offers a critical response to Kate Crawford’s discussion of AI classification. In her celebrated book Atlas of AI (2021), Crawford examines the ethical consequences of biases, reifications, and oversimplifications that emerge from the decision-making behind AI taxonomies. I argue that t...
| Publicado en: | KRITIKE: An Online Journal of Philosophy Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 25 - 50 |
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