AI as Knowledge Capture and Colonial Landgrab - Communicative AI-Lecture with Prof. Dr. Nick Couldry

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Author(s):
ZeMKI University of Bremen

Year: 2024
Keywords: data colonialism, AI
Language(s): English

This talk reflects on AI from the perspective of the framework of data colonialism (Couldry and Mejias, 2019). AI, in practical terms, represents the application of a hugely increase in computing capacity, but from the perspective of data colonialism as the continuation of five centuries of colonialism’s interlocking relations with capitalism is just the latest in a long series of colonial landgrabs. AI treats the whole world of human communicative production as its data territory (Mejias and Couldry, Data Grab, Penguin/Fischer February 2024). But AI’s territorial expansion is broader than the platform-based capture of social life that until recently fuelled data colonialism. Without denying the scientific power of AI for specific calculative goals, AI as a business vision captures the domain of knowledge and aims to convert it into a new domain whose parameters fit more closely within corporate control. Examples of new AI territories such as education will be discussed.

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