{"title":"Yarden Katz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYarden Katz\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful works that challenge conventional thinking around race, culture, and social constructs. His writing invites readers to critically engage with complex ideas, making him a distinctive voice within educational and reference literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExpect explorations that blend rigorous research with accessible prose, encouraging a deeper understanding of identity and societal frameworks. Katz’s works are essential reading for those interested in the intersections of race, history, and cultural analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"artificial-whiteness-by-yarden-katz-9780231194914","title":"Artificial Whiteness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDramatic statements about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence for humanity abound, as an industry of experts claims that AI is poised to reshape nearly every sphere of life. Who profits from the idea that the age of AI has arrived? Why do ideas of AI's transformative potential keep reappearing in social and political discourse, and how are they linked to broader political agendas?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYarden Katz reveals the ideology embedded in the concept of artificial intelligence, contending that it both serves and mimics the logic of white supremacy. He demonstrates that understandings of AI, as a field and a technology, have shifted dramatically over time based on the needs of its funders and the professional class that formed around it. From its origins in the Cold War military-industrial complex through its present-day Silicon Valley proselytisers and eager policy analysts, AI has never been simply a technical project enabled by larger data and better computing. Drawing on intimate familiarity with the field and its practices, Katz instead asks us to see how AI reinforces models of knowledge that assume white male superiority and an imperialist worldview. Only by seeing the connection between artificial intelligence and whiteness can we prioritise alternatives to the conception of AI as an all-encompassing technological force.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBringing together theories of whiteness and race in the humanities and social sciences with a deep understanding of the history and practice of science and computing, \u003ci\u003eArtificial Whiteness\u003c\/i\u003e is an incisive, urgent critique of the uses of AI as a political tool to uphold social hierarchies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462622593260,"sku":"9780231194914","price":52.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231194914-artificial-whiteness.jpg?v=1775018389"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/yarden-katz.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}