{"id":7703,"date":"2020-12-02T20:06:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7703"},"modified":"2020-12-02T20:06:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:06:45","slug":"the-whiteness-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7703","title":{"rendered":"The Whiteness of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s13347-020-00415-6\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/13347_2020_415_Fig4_HTML-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This paper focuses on the fact that AI is predominantly portrayed as white\u2014in colour, ethnicity, or both. We first illustrate the prevalent Whiteness<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s13347-020-00415-6\">The Whiteness of AI<\/a>&#8221; was mentioned in an online panel following <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2011.02787\">The State of AI Ethics report<\/a> (October 2020) from the <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealethics.ai\/\">Montreal AI Ethics Institute.<\/a> This article starts from the observation that if you search Google images for &#8220;robot&#8221; or &#8220;AI&#8221; you get predominately images of white (or blue) entities. (Go ahead and try it.) From there it moves to the tendency of &#8220;White people; and the persistent tendency of members of that group, who dominate the academy in the US and Europe, to refuse to see themselves as racialised or race as a matter of concern at all.&#8221; (p. 686)<\/p>\n<p>The paper then proposes three theories about the whiteness of AI to make it strange and to challenge the myth of colour-blindness that many of us in technology related fields live in. Important reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This paper focuses on the fact that AI is predominantly portrayed as white\u2014in colour, ethnicity, or both. We first illustrate the prevalent Whiteness &#8220;The Whiteness of AI&#8221; was mentioned in an online panel following The State of AI Ethics report (October 2020) from the Montreal AI Ethics Institute. This article starts from the observation that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7703\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Whiteness of AI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,48,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-conference","category-ethics-of-data-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7710,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions\/7710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}