Topic
Work and automation
Readings on digital work, automation, care and the human infrastructures that sustain AI.
- Radar
Relationships Come Before the Algorithm
Five frequencies from contemporary anthropology in the United States for thinking about the world we are beginning to automate.
- Note
When the forest enters the model
Artificial intelligence can improve wildfire detection and response, but it cannot replace the climatic, territorial and social transformation required by an increasingly flammable Europe.
- Radar
Staying Is Also a Form of Movement
A language documented beyond its fluent speaker, a former prison turned into an archive, and communities remaining under climatic pressure show that staying is not the same as standing still. Permanence distributes labour, care, memory, authority, and possibilities for the future.
- Radar
Technology Comes Later
Three cases show that artificial intelligence does not begin with the model. Before it is trained, institutions and communities have already decided how a language is written, which abilities are recognised as work, and which practices can circulate as heritage.
- Note
Digital violence is not a design flaw
From synthetic images created in a school to the automatic reuse of photographs on Instagram. An anthropological account of how platforms and institutions distribute harm and the work of repair.
- Radar
Kwe’sx uma kiwe îtxi
A Nasa Yuwe interpreter reveals the potential of natural language processing and raises a decisive question about who governs the data when an Indigenous language enters artificial intelligence.
- Radar
Learning in the public university: five anthropological questions for reading AI from the Complutense
A first-person word of thanks to the teachers of the UCM and a defence of the public university as a space of knowledge, work, equality and debate for thinking about artificial intelligence.
- Note
The gesture as data
From Meta to Gurugram, how clicks, skills and bodily techniques are turned into data to train automation.
- Radar
Languages, borders and forests. Who has the right to belong
Three scenes connected by a single anthropological question. Who can name, inhabit and care for a territory.
- Radar
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.
- Radar
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.
- Radar
Praxis, care and essential work
AIthropology Lab radar on public anthropology, global health, care work, multimodal pedagogy and kinship.