{"id":2038,"date":"2020-12-17T19:28:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T19:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2020-12-17T19:36:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T19:36:17","slug":"kate-crawfords-and-vladen-jolars-anatomy-of-an-ai-dec-10-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=2038","title":{"rendered":"Diagonal Reading Group: \u201cAnatomy of an AI.\u201d &#8211; Dec. 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">December 10, 2020: Kate Crawford\u2019s and Vladen Jolar\u2019s \u201cAnatomy of an AI.\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"696\" src=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/ai-anatomy-map-1024x696.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/ai-anatomy-map-1024x696.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/ai-anatomy-map-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/ai-anatomy-map-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/ai-anatomy-map-1536x1044.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/ai-anatomy-map-2048x1392.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On December 10, Diagonal held its first session, discussing Kate Crawford\u2019s and Vladen Jolar\u2019s \u201cAnatomy of an AI.\u201d We dug into Crawford\u2019s attention to the material infrastructure supporting internet-of-things\/\u201dAI\u201d devices such as the Amazon Echo, with wide praise for the project\u2019s focus on mining as integral to this technology, and mapping of income inequality and economies of data extractions. Yet we questioned the specificity of the project towards a critique of artificial intelligence. To what extent is AI&nbsp;<em>exceptional<\/em>&nbsp;from other advanced new technologies within globalized capitalism? Is AI exceptionally&nbsp;<em>opaque<\/em>? Some argued it is definitionally so, as designers of AIs cannot describe how they come to their \u2018decisions\u2019; others countered that AI is in fact a&nbsp;<em>transparent<\/em>&nbsp;realm: AI renders cognition legible, as its code can be read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 10, 2020: Kate Crawford\u2019s and Vladen Jolar\u2019s \u201cAnatomy of an AI.\u201d On December 10, Diagonal held its first session, discussing Kate Crawford\u2019s and Vladen Jolar\u2019s \u201cAnatomy of an AI.\u201d We dug into Crawford\u2019s attention to the material infrastructure supporting internet-of-things\/\u201dAI\u201d devices such as the Amazon Echo, with wide praise for the project\u2019s focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-diagonal","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2047,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}