To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

By Cameron Tonkinwise. 2014

1,004 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Visual Arts and Performing Arts

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/2158177a5ab3cf7ac30eaf6ba1d5ea938de99859

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In Computer Science Applications

1. Vincent C. Müller
2. Stefano Puntoni
3. Giulio Mecacci
4. Filippo Santoni de Sio
5. Ben Green

In Visual Arts and Performing Arts

1. Vincent C. Müller
2. Giulio Mecacci
3. Filippo Santoni de Sio
4. Ben Green

Citations in the corpus

• Data sovereignty: A review (2021, neutral): “…as a right , then management strategies focusing on mere technical designs alone will probably not be enough to advance it, fall short of the position’s own standards, and be discredited as technological solutionism (Mozorov, 2013): a putative technical fix to a problem that demands much more.”
• Four Responsibility Gaps with Artificial Intelligence: Why they Matter and How to Address them (2021, background): “Moreover, even when this is not the intention of their authors, these proposals even run the risk of fuelling the temptation of “solutionism” (Morozov, 2013); (Stilgoe, 2017), the belief that complex socio-technical and political problems can be “solved” (or avoided) by the introduction of new…”
• The Society of Algorithms (2021, neutral): “(Marx 1920, p. 119, emphasis added) 216 Burrell • Fourcade A nn u.”
• Consumers and Artificial Intelligence: An Experiential Perspective (2020, background): “We hope that our formulation serves as an antidote to the temptation of “technological solutionism” (Morozov 2013) and a useful guide to contrast cases in which targeted consumer segments are subjected to biased outcomes as a result of uncritical firm reliance on AI.”
• Training Computers to See Internet Pornography: Gender and Sexual Discrimination in Computer Vision Science (2017, background): “Moreover, CVPF is an example of “technological solutionism” (Morozov 2013) that permeates technology research, development, and distribution.”
• Ethics of artificial intelligence and robotics (2020, background): “This ‘Internet Libertarianism’ is sometimes taken to assume that technical solutions will take care of societal problems by themselves (Mozorov 2013).”
• Towards a Standard for Identifying and Managing Bias in Artificial Intelligence (2022, background): “This approach to problem-solving, often termed technosolutionism,[122] assumes that the “right” code or algorithm can be applied to any problem and ignores or minimizes the relevance of human, organizational, and societal values and behaviors that inform design, deployment, and use of technology.”
• Algorithmic realism: expanding the boundaries of algorithmic thought (2020, neutral): “as “technological solutionism” [102], “tech goggles” [53], and “technochauvinism” [18].”
• The false promise of risk assessments: epistemic reform and the limits of fairness (2020, background): “nological solutionism” [116], “technochauvinism” [14], and “tech goggles” [59], what has emerged is a “sociotechnical imaginary”—a collective vision of a desirable future attainable through technology [81]—that casts criminal justice adjudication as prediction tasks,”