[Air-L] algorithms as infrastructures/archives

[Dave Levine]

Loup, also, forgot to mention this great white paper by the AI Now Institute: Algorithmic Impact Assessments (https://ainowinstitute.org/aiareport2018.pdf).

Thanks, Best, Dave 

Sent from my iPhone. All typos are Apple's fault. 

> On May 27, 2019, at 1:49 PM, Dr. S.A. Applin <sally at sally.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> PolySocial Reality (PoSR) is a conceptual model that encompasses messaging and communications—including algorithms.
> 
> You might find something at posr.org
> 
> and at posr.org/wiki/publications
> 
> -Sally
> 
> 
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>> On May 27, 2019, at 8:20 AM, Loup Cellard <loupcellard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> Anyone can recommend readings helping in conceptualising algorithms as
>> "old" infrastructures or "living" archives.
>> 
>> I am studying more particularly large-scale decision-making systems that
>> relies on "old" infrastructures of the state.
>> Ex: algorithms used to calculate taxes, the work mobility of civil
>> servants, allocation of students into schools, etc.
>> 
>> I am interested about two things :
>> 
>>  - while algorithms are sometimes defined as innovative and somehow "new"
>>  they actually relies on "old" infrastructures. (the temporality of
>>  infrastructures)
>>  - the infrastructural capacity of the state and the way it maintain an
>>  opacity on these systems. (the attractiveness and dangers of algorithmic
>>  transparency)
>> 
>> 
>> Any recommendation from infrastructure studies ? critical algorithm studies
>> ? sociology/anthropology of the state and civil services ?
>> 
>> Many thanks,
>> 
>> Loup
>> 
>> -- 
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>> 
>> *Loup Cellard*PhD Student - Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies
>> <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/>, Warwick University,
>> Coventry, UK.
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