Artificial Whiteness: Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence
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Yarden Katz reveals the ideology embedded in the concept of artificial intelligence, contending that it both serves and mimics the logic of white supremacy. Only by seeing the connection between artificial intelligence and whiteness can we prioritize alternatives to the conception of AI as an all-encompassing technological force.
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The outputs of AI systems reflect Western ways of partitioning visions of the world and not others.
“The outputs of these AI systems reflect those ways of partitioning visions of the world and not others (Katz, 2020, pp.110-114).”
From A taxonomy of epistemic injustice in the context of AI and the case for generative hermeneutical erasure (2025) · cites this paper as Katz, 2020
AI development has been imbued with forms of white universalism, militarism, and racial bias ever since the 1950s.
“AI-scholar Yarden Katz (2020), for example, explains that AI development has been imbued with forms of white universalism, militarism and racial bias ever since the 1950s.”
From A taxonomy of epistemic injustice in the context of AI and the case for generative hermeneutical erasure (2025) · cites this paper as Katz (2020)
If left unaddressed, these blindnesses auger a future where the integration of AI into every nook and cranny of our societies will cement white supremacy into the core operating system(s) of the world.
“cement white supremacy into the core operating system(s) of the world (Cave and Dihal 2020;Katz 2020;Phan 2019).”
From Abundant intelligences: placing AI within Indigenous knowledge frameworks (2025) · cites this paper as Katz 2020
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Cited by 83
- Authors
- Katz, Y.
- Venue
- Columbia University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2020-12-10
- OpenAlex
- W4237438446
- Cited by
- 83
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 9
- FWCI
- 8.79
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Columbia University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Cybernetics and Technology in Society
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Critical Race Theory in Education
- Keywords
- artificial intelligence, whiteness, white supremacy, ideology, race and technology, critique of AI
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