🔬 🤖 Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: what are algorithms doing in the scientific littearature? 🔬 🤖 New paper out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social with Mathieu Jacomy, Matilde Ficozzi, and Torben Elgaard Jensen. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Summary 🧵👇 - ThreadSky

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🔬 🤖 Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: what are algorithms doing in the scientific littearature? 🔬 🤖
New paper out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social with Mathieu Jacomy, Matilde Ficozzi, and Torben Elgaard Jensen.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241255107

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akmunk.bsky.social•205 days ago

2/9 Media coverage of AI is often criticized as sensationalist, doomy, or naively ignoring controversy. Leads to calls for a more expert informed public conversation about AI and more attention to the way concrete AI-related technologies matter in practice.

akmunk.bsky.social•205 days ago

3/9 We therefore ask how scientific experts contribute to the issuefication of AI and analyse a corpus of 1.2 million scientific papers about machine learning algorithms published between 2011 and 2021. We show that:

akmunk.bsky.social•205 days ago

4/9 Scientific discourse is typically focussed on specific algorithms solving specific problems in specific situations, not on AI in general.

akmunk.bsky.social•205 days ago

5/9 These problems range from the way we distribute renewable energy in the power grid to the way we diagnose diseases or monitor earthquakes, but they are rarely about AI in their origin.

akmunk.bsky.social•205 days ago

6/9 And even when the problems are AI-related, e.g. the production of deepfakes, other algorithms are typically mobilized as a solution, e.g. deepfake detection.

akmunk.bsky.social•205 days ago

7/9 This leads us to the conclusion that a more expert-informed public conversation about AI would likely help us situate the way concrete algorithms matter in practice (i.e. much less sensationalist) but would not necessarily stage AI as particularly controversial.

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