Daily radar
Daily radar
A curated selection of readings and debates at the intersection of artificial intelligence and anthropology.
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China and those who feed AI
Three researchers help us understand Chinese artificial intelligence from the street, the factory and the global infrastructure of data.
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India under heat: counting, circulating, sowing
An anthropological reading of India through extreme heat, caste census, state data, social circulation and seeds.
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Three compasses for domesticating AI
Apple, Google and Microsoft did not merely present technology. They staged three distinct ways of making artificial intelligence acceptable.
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When anthropology enters the AI design room
From chatbot design at MIT to post-AI pedagogies at St Andrews, anthropology is beginning to intervene not only in how AI is studied, but in how it is designed, taught and inhabited.
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The kinship that is sung
Indio Solari, the ricotero mass and a popular form of kinning through music, technology and shared memory.
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Arturo Escobar and the politics of the pluriverse
From post-development to terricide, an anthropology for thinking worlds in dispute.
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Marisol de la Cadena and the worlds that do not fit
Indigenous futures, languages at risk and patrimonialised bodies in the June issue of American Anthropologist, the most complete count to date of human remains in British institutions, and Marisol de la Cadena's election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: what anthropology does with what the dominant frameworks cannot handle, and what that says about an AI that classifies, translates and normalises.
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Darío Gil and AI as state infrastructure
The Department of Energy's Genesis Mission situates AI as a state infrastructure of science, energy and security, while Descola, Viveiros de Castro and Veena Das offer anthropological keys for reading what world it produces.
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Spanish anthropology for reading infrastructures, platforms and everyday life
AIthropology Lab radar on Susana Narotzky, moral economy, food delivery, neighbourhoods, networks and commons, from social and cultural anthropology in Spain.
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Haraway and the case for a slow AI
AIthropology Lab radar on slow AI, funding for the discipline, restitution, more-than-human ecologies and ethnographic repair.
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AI is no longer a tool. It is a social infrastructure
AIthropology Lab radar on regulation, work, education, cultural heritage, the anthropology of AI and material infrastructure.
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Praxis, care and essential work
AIthropology Lab radar on public anthropology, global health, care work, multimodal pedagogy and kinship.