The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

By Shoshana Zuboff. 2019

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Ethical and social risks of harm from Language Models (2021, background): “The privacy loss that an individual suffers as a result of others giving up personal data presents a collective privacy problem that is widely discussed in the context of social networks (Garcia et al., 2018; Zuboff, 2019).”
Unsolved Problems in ML Safety (2021, background): “Many companies help satisfy human desires and improve human welfare, but some companies have been incentivized to decimate rain forests [59], lie to customers that cigarettes are healthy [20], invade user privacy [209], and cut corners on safety [175].”
Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence (2020, background): “2016; Ricaurte 2019; Couldry and Mejias 2019a) and data capitalism (Zuboff 2019) recognise this nature of historic continuity and the role of data as the material resource that is exploited”
What Does it Mean for a Language Model to Preserve Privacy? (2022, background): “As we build technologies that collect, store, and process our natural language communication, it is important that these technologies do not violate human notions of privacy or make use of data in ways beyond what is needed for the utility of the technology [71, 101].”
Power to the People? Opportunities and Challenges for Participatory AI (2022, background): “Yet this type of “passive” participation has increasingly been linked to privacy violations and surveillance [85, 88].”
Ethics of quantification: illumination, obfuscation and performative legitimation (2020, background): “As discussed in Saltelli (2020), a heterogeneous community increasingly perceives and indicts quantification as instrumental to domination, including technologists (Lanier, 2006), jurists (Supiot, 2007) and economists (Zuboff, 2019).”
The Society of Algorithms (2021, background): “What made the development of this “instrumentarian power” (Zuboff 2019, p. 8) possible was the cooptation of existing law to serve the needs of informational capitalism (Cohen 2019, Kapczynski 2020,Pasquale 2015,Pistor 2019).”
The ethics of ChatGPT - Exploring the ethical issues of an emerging technology (2024, background): “ChatGPT arises from the current context of what Zuboff (2019) calls surveillance capitalism.”
Post-Covid-19 Education and Education Technology ‘Solutionism’: a Seller’s Market (2020, background): “For companies in various fields, behavioural data has become the most important asset to be monetized (Zuboff 2019).”
COVID-19 and digital disruption in UK universities: afflictions and affordances of emergency online migration (2020, background): “…economic inequality and fomenting also a reconsideration, even refutation of the kinds of social stratification and democratic infringements (cf. Zuboff 2019) committed by global capitalism—and equally mobilising the restitution and reclamation of the public sphere—so too is it magnifying the…”
The wrong kind of AI? Artificial intelligence and the future of labour demand (2019, neutral): “22See, for example, Harari (2018), Lanier (2018), Pasquale (2015) and Zuboff (2019).”