My text "Pause Giant Anthropomorphizing Metaphors" published in the Critical AI Journal

"The reemergence of pseudoscienti[c discourses around 'AI' suggests using a terminology that combats retrograde biological essentialism. By conflating nodes within virtual software architectures, so-called convolutional neural networks, with biological neurons some computer scientists have fueled a surge of 'AI' hype playing into the narrative that human-like artifcial general intelligence (AGI) is near."

The exaggeration of the technological capacity to produce human-level intelligence relies heavily on unsubstantiated metaphors that involve anthropomorphization. This discourse analysis builds on John Fiske's concept of technostruggles, whereby technoscienti[c discourse exercises power by producing “a particular form of social knowledge.”
This article expands on how using anthropomorphizing metaphors enables pseudoscientifc approaches such as phrenology and physiognomy. Consequentially the thinkpiece suggests a more self-reflective language around “AI” and de-anthropomorphized notions and concepts such as “weights” or “nodes” instead of “neurons"
@databasecultures I'd love to read it, but I don't have access.
@databasecultures I am very interested in reading the article. Could you please share it with me? Thank you
@hagen just DM me your email, happy to send it