This is a collection of essays of which (as of this writing) I have only read the first, but I have to post now because I love love love Báyò Akómoláfé's take on AI and education. "The call for 'ethics-by-design' often arrives with the sheen of accountability, but underneath its surface glows a deep desire to keep the human firmly in charge, to domesticate the unknown, to render disruption tolerable, and to maintain the fiction of sovereign authorship. While there is value in creating protective frames, I worry that such architectures of 'ethical safety' are often animated by anthropocentric fear, a managerial rationality, a sneaking-in-of-anthropocentrism via the backdoor, a refusal to be displaced, a reluctance to be altered by what exceeds our moral grammars." In other words, a deep conservatism that refuses to accept that there may be any changes in the existing structures of knowledge and power. (Alas, the rest of the volume does not live up to the promise of the first chapter, as we are offered a number of well-worn critiques of AI where critiques of education would be rather more appropriate).
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