House of Mirrors: HMKV

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often portrayed as a divine entity that makes "just" and "objective" decisions, but it is only as good as the humans who train it. It is a digital "house of mirrors" that only mirrors or repeats what it has been instructed to reflect, leading to algorithmic bias, discrimination, hidden human labor, categorization, and classification problems. It raises the question of whether it is possible to reclaim agency in this context.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2023
Publisher: DruckVerlag Kettler

In the popular imagination, artificial intelligence (AI) is often portrayed as a divine entity that makes "just" and "objective" decisions. However, AI is far from intelligent. Rather, it recognizes in large amounts of data what it has been trained to recognize. Like a sniffer dog, it finds exactly what it has been taught to look for. In performing this task, it is much more efficient than any human being, but this is also its problem. AI only mirrors or repeats what it has been instructed to reflect. Seen in this light, it may be viewed as a kind of digital "house of mirrors."

Humans train machines, and these machines are only as good or as bad as the humans who train them. Based on this insight, the publication addresses not only algorithmic bias or discrimination in AI, but also AI-related issues such as hidden human labor, the problem of categorization and classification, and our ideas and fantasies about AI. It also raises the question of whether (and how) it is possible to reclaim agency in this context.

Dimension: 240 x 170 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783862069965