Description: AI as Instrument of Knowledge Extractivism. By Matteo Pasquinelli and Vladan Joler
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By Vladan Joler and Matteo Pasquinelli (2020)
The Nooscope is a cartography of the limits of artificial intelligence, intended as a provocation to both computer science and the humanities. Any map is a partial perspective, a way to provoke debate. Similarly, this map is a manifesto — of AI dissidents. Its main purpose is to challenge the mystifications of artificial intelligence. First, as a technical definition of intelligence and, second, as a political form that would be autonomous from society and the human. 1 In the expression ‘artificial intellig