Resources for Users and Instructors
- AI's climate impact goes beyond its emissionsFrom Scientific American
- AI and ChatGPT in teaching: context and strategiesFrom the UMN Center for Educational Innovation
- Assessment in the age of artificial intelligenceFrom Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence
- The hidden biases behind ChatGPTFrom People of Color in Tech
- How to spot robots in a world of A.I.-generated textFrom the New York Times
- The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development GoalsFrom Nature Communications
- Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimesFrom MIT Technology Review
- The Uneven Distribution of AI’s Environmental ImpactsFrom Harvard Business Review
Books in Saint Mary's Libraries
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence--from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom. What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning scholar Kate Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the minerals drawn from the earth to the labor pulled from low-wage information workers to the data taken from every action and expression. Crawford reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequity. Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a material and political perspective on what it takes to make AI and how it centralizes power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world.
Call Number: Winona Campus Library General Collection - Lower Level ; 006.301 C89ISBN: 9780300209570Publication Date: 2021
Race after Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era. Presenting the concept of the "New Jim Code," she shows how a range of discriminatory designs encode inequity by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies; by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions; or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. This illuminating guide provides conceptual tools for decoding tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold but also the ones we ourselves manufacture.
Call Number: Winona Campus Library General Collection - Lower Level ; 303.4834 B46ISBN: 9781509526390Publication Date: 2019
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World by
A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right. In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed systems.Broussard, a software developer and journalist, reminds us that there are fundamental limits to what we can (and should) do with technology. With this book, she offers a guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology-and issues a warning that we should never assume that computers always get things right If we understand the limits of what we can do with technology, Broussard tells us, we can make better choices about what we should do with it to make the world better for everyone.
Call Number: Winona Campus Library General Collection - Lower Level ; 303.4834 B87ISBN: 9780262537018Publication Date: 2019
Artificial Whiteness: Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence by Call Number: Winona Campus Library General Collection - Lower Level ; 303.4834 K19ISBN: 9780231194907Publication Date: 2020Also available as an ebook, see link
Algorithms for the People: Democracy in the Age of AI by
In Algorithms for the People, Josh Simons flips the narrative about how we govern AI technologies. Instead of examining the impact of technology on democracy, he explores how to put democracy at the heart of AI governance. Drawing on his experience, Simons gets under the hood of predictive technologies, offering an accessible account of how they work, why they matter, and how to regulate the institutions that build and use them. He argues that prediction is political: human choices about how to design and use predictive tools shape their effects. Approaching predictive technologies through the lens of political theory casts new light on how democracies should govern political choices made outside the sphere of representative politics. Showing the connection between technology regulation and democratic reform, Simons argues that we must go beyond conventional theorizing of AI ethics to wrestle with fundamental moral and political questions about how the governance of technology can support the flourishing of democracy.
Call Number: Winona Campus Library General Collection - Lower Level ; 303.4834 S61ISBN: 9780691244006Publication Date: 2023
