Visions of Swarming Robots: Artificial Intelligence and Stupidity in the Military-Industrial Projection of the Future of Warfare

Crogan, Patrick

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“…3. Similarly, see also Crogan (2020) 8. For a further discussion of this case, see Egliston and Carter (2021a: 8-10).…”

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“…The secondary literature on Stiegler focusing on data-based digital media highlights further instances of the deleterious effects and affects of contemporary technical shaping of memory. For writers like Ash (2015) on videogames and Kinsley (2015) and Wilson (2015) on spatial computing, Crogan (2016Crogan ( , 2020 on drones, or Azar et al (2021) on machine vision, data-based systems as a mode of technological memorialisation have negative societal effects by virtue of closing the 'gap' between consciousness and the technical operation of these digital media, ushering in states of cognition without consciousness, so to speak. In this secondary literature, this technological enframing through retentional and protentional instruments has effects such as amplifying consumerist impulses through perceptual shaping (such as by capturing or 'retaining' data about consumer activity), to the diminishing of capacities for care, justice and intellection (that form through repeated engagement and reflection with exteriority).…”

Section: Stiegler and The Politics Of Mediated Timementioning

confidence: 99%

“… 3. Similarly, see also Crogan (2020) on the ‘stupidity’ of the discourses surrounding drone warfare.…”

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‘The interface of the future’: Mixed reality, intimate data and imagined temporalities

Egliston

Carter

2022

Big Data & Society

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This article examines discourses about mixed reality as a data-rich sensing technology – specifically, engaging with discourses of time as framed by developers, engineers and in corporate PR and marketing in a range of public facing materials. We focus on four main settings in which mixed reality is imagined to be used, and in which time was a dominant discursive theme – (1) the development of mixed reality by big tech companies, (2) the use of mixed reality for defence, (3) mixed reality as a technology for control of populations in civil society and (4) mixed reality as a technology used in workplace settings. Across these settings, the broad narrative is that mixed reality technologies afford overwhelmingly positive benefits like efficiency and security through their capture, relay and rendition of data (about the environment, about the body etc.) – affording a form of anticipatory power to the user. The framing of temporality, we argue, is underlain by social and political values, which represent certain interests, but leave others out in the imagination of mixed reality's technological advance.

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“…3. Similarly, see also Crogan (2020) 8. For a further discussion of this case, see Egliston and Carter (2021a: 8-10).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Stiegler and The Politics Of Mediated Timementioning

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‘The interface of the future’: Mixed reality, intimate data and imagined temporalities

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Carter

2022

Big Data & Society

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“…Some researchers examine the use of automated systems for military purposes from a sociological perspective (Crogan, 2016(Crogan, , 2019Elliott, 2019a;Suchman & Weber, 2016). A common concern has been to what extent "automated" systems should be trusted to make high-stake decisions such as targeting and firing.…”

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Sociological perspectives on artificial intelligence: A typological reading

Liu

2021

Sociology Compass

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Interest in applying sociological tools to analysing the social nature, antecedents and consequences of artificial intelligence (AI) has been rekindled in recent years. However, for researchers new to this field of enquiry, navigating the expansive literature can be challenging. This paper presents a practical way to help these researchers to think about, search and read the literature more effectively. It divides the literature into three categories. Research in each category is informed by one analytic perspective and analyses one "type" of AI. Research informed by the "scientific AI" perspective analyses "AI" as a science or scientific research field. Research underlain by the "technical AI" perspective studies "AI" as a meta-technology and analyses its various applications and subtechnologies. Research informed by the "cultural AI" perspective views AI development as a social phenomenon and examines its interactions with the wider social, cultural, economic and political conditions in which it develops and by which it is shaped. These analytic perspectives reflect the evolution of "AI" from chiefly a scientific research subject during the twentieth century to a widely commercialised innovation in recent decades and increasingly to a distinctive socio-cultural phenomenon today. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Queering Intelligence

Attard-Frost¹

2022

KI-Kritik / AI Critique

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Visions of Swarming Robots: Artificial Intelligence and Stupidity in the Military-Industrial Projection of the Future of Warfare

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

‘The interface of the future’: Mixed reality, intimate data and imagined temporalities

‘The interface of the future’: Mixed reality, intimate data and imagined temporalities

Sociological perspectives on artificial intelligence: A typological reading

Queering Intelligence

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