...well-written and clear... puts a new slant on the long-running debates on the foundation and practice of AI.
–Mind, Culture and, and Activity: An International Journal
A truly original contribution. For the first time we have a reading of recent feminist theory in relation to a comprehensive and critical review of projects in artificial intelligence, and of relevant developments in the sociology of knowledge and social studies of technology.
–Lucy Suchman, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
This is a very important book ... It deserves to be read by both sides of what has for too long been a 'gender-technology split' - by mainstream feminists who, barring a small community of feminist scholars of technology, have paid scant attention to technology, and by all those interested in the 'AI debate' which has for so long been notable for its lack of a feminist voice. Wendy Faulkner, University of Edinburgh.
This is a very important book ... It deserves to be read by both sides of what has for too long been a gender-technology split - by mainstream feminists who, barring a small community of feminist scholars of technology, have paid scant attention to technology, and by all those interested in the AI debate which has for so long been notable for its lack of a feminist voice. Wendy Faulkner, University of Edinburgh.
Product Description
Artificial Knowing challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world. Alison Adam admirably fills the large gap in science and technology studies by showing us how gender is inscribed in AI-based computer systems. Drawing from a wide range of social science, philosophical and feminist theory, and using tools of feminist epistemology, Adam provides a sustained critique of AI which re-enforces and substantially extends many of the traditional criticisms of the AI project.
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