"Artificial intelligence has moved from the lab into everyday life, and is now seemingly everywhere. Arguably, there are as many foci of concern about AI as there are implementations of it. AI and Assembly invites readers to explore a fundamental, and overlooked, issue: the interaction between artificial intelligence and freedom of assembly. This freedom is core to collective action, civil society, and liberal democracy. Now, as sensors collect, analyze, and make data-driven decisions about us when we are using screens and when we are not, when we are inside our homes and outside in public, when we are in transit or asleep, when we're alone and when we're together, we must address AI's impact on assembly. Where and how does assembly take place, why, and who participates by choice and who by coercion? From audits of Facebook's algorithms to campaigns against facial recognition, from secretive technological experiments to rideshare drivers advocating for fair pay, AI and Assembly provides a unique view andglobal perspectives on the future of assembly in a world taken over by AI, as well as envisions of a more just digital future"-- Provided by publisher.
Artificial intelligence has moved from the lab into everyday life and is now seemingly everywhere. As AI creeps into every aspect of our lives, the data grab required to power AI also expands. People worldwide are tracked, analyzed, and influenced, whether on or off their screens, inside their homes or outside in public, still or in transit, alone or together. What does this mean for our ability to assemble with others for collective action, including protesting, holding community meetings and organizing rallies ? In this context, where and how does assembly take place, and who participates by choice and who by coercion? AI and Assembly explores these questions and offers global perspectives on the present and future of assembly in a world taken over by AI.
The contributors analyze how AI threatens free assembly by clustering people without consent, amplifying social biases, and empowering authoritarian surveillance. But they also explore new forms of associational life that emerge in response to these harms, from communities in the US conducting algorithmic audits to human rights activists in East Africa calling for biometric data protection and rideshare drivers in London advocating for fair pay. Ultimately, AI and Assembly is a rallying cry for those committed to a digital future beyond the narrow horizon of corporate extraction and state surveillance.
