Hello everyone. We all hear the news: “AI is taking leaping steps every year”, “Shortly, the singularity will happen.”, “AI will dominate humanity.” We are critical of this simple story. How else could we explain that AI systems are failing regularly, are used to amplify racisim and sexism? In recent years, many research fields have become interested in AI.
In the spirit of Gina Neff et al., we want to "Critique and contribute" and provide "a practice-based framework for improving critical data studies and data science." We want to include perspectives from other scientific disciplines by reading their work, discussing it, and creating a broader and societal perspective on Data Science. Our aim is to critically discuss dominating narratives and to attempt to build alternative narratives. In summary, we want to answer: What is AI and what shall it become?
What do we plan to do? We want to read together one book or longer work per semester and discuss it. At the end of the semester, we also want to invite the researchers to discuss our results with them. In addition, we might form working groups to investigate specific ideas. We also want to cordially invite our fellow students from other faculties. Interested? Please join us under: https://t.me/+ZGj8_adO3MlkOWVi
