We’re thrilled to announce our new Co-Opting AI Book series, helmed by series editor Mona Sloane!Series Editor Mona SloaneCo-Opting AI will be a new series of compact books for readers to better understand the social dimension of AI. Co-opting the hype around so-called “artificial intelligen
We need to recognize the degree to which what appears to us as AI is in fact an aggregation of data and images that are already circulating in the public domain, and hence it is a socially spayed technology: it is not appearing as magic before us.
"You can imagine how if we wanted to create algorithms that could help inform judicial decisions or credit scoring systems or employment decisions and we did so by training those algorithms on existing, human-made decisions in these areas, then all of the biases underlying those human decisions woul
UC Press is proud to be part of the Association of University Press’s eighth annual University Press Week, whose overall theme this year is Read. Think. Act."Through this positive theme AUPresses members worldwide seek to encourage people to read the latest peer-reviewed publications about issues th