New-ish preprint! Marcela, @Iris, and I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"
Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17786243
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First off we pluralise L to accentuate there's no 1 approach. And we position ourselves in this interdisciplinary field of critically examining AI & reflecting on harms.
We give 5 non-exhaustive angles: conceptual clarity, critical thinking, decoloniality, respecting expertise, slow science.
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Conceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer.
See section 2 here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17786243
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Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships
between statements about the world.
See section 3 here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17786243
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Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices.
See section 4 here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17786243
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Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society.
See section 5 here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17786243
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Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy
practices.
See section 6 here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17786243
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Finally, we end on:
"The future [under the sway of AI risks being] a constant rehashing of the past, wherein human creativity and communication are not only mediated by but controlled by companies. In the midst of this nonsense, we must nourish
hope in shared values"
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17786243
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