#5 Spectres of AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is arguably the new spectre of digital cultures. By filtering information out of existing data, it determines the way we see the world and how the world sees us. Yet the vision algorithms have of our future is built on our past. What we teach these algorithms ultimately reflects back on us and it is therefore no surprise when artificial intelligence starts to classify on the basis of race, class and gender. This odd'hauntology'1Jacques Derrida, Spectres de Marx, Paris, Galilée, 1993. is at the core of what is currently discussed under the labels of algorithmic bias or pattern discrimination.2For