In a new podcast produced by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Matthias Quent, Andrea Abele-Brehm, Sahana Udupa, Christoph Neuberger, Anna Wegscheider, Marina Chernivsky, Max Czollek, Astrid Seville, Irma Trommer and Marina Weisband discuss the proliferation of interlinked forms of extreme speech. The podcast is hosted by Laura Robber and Ruth Zapf.
This chapter develops “prompt ethnography” as a critical methodology to scrutinize generative AI. Prompt ethnography employs reflexive interactions with generative models and public controversies around model behaviors as empirical touchstones to draw inferences about why AI models say what they say about politically charged topics, and interrogate the larger structures of power that define the code, content and consternations undergirding model outputs. It is published in the Handbook of Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence (edited by Udupa S. & Hervik P., Edward Elgar)
Featuring 33 chapters and the editors’ introduction, this Handbook provides a groundbreaking collection of anthropological research on artificial intelligence (AI), examining how anthropology can help to comprehend and critique its development. Evaluating the limits, hopes and fears of AI, leading experts explore its influence as a sociocultural phenomenon rather than a discrete technological system.