'AI': Ideologies of Computing

TL;DR

This paper uses the concept of ideology to analyze how AI development reflects social, economic, and political ideas, highlighting ideological shifts and questioning current corporate-university collaborations.

Contribution

It offers a novel ideological framework to critique AI development and examines the implications of current institutional collaborations.

Findings

Identifies ideological shifts in AI development

Questions the benefit of corporate-university collaborations for labor and public

Provides a critical perspective on AI's social and political implications

Abstract

We develop a conceptualization of ideology, in which a system of ideas represents social, economic, and political relationships. We use ideology as a lens for understanding and critiquing intersecting social, economic, and political aspects of how 'AI' technologies are being developed. We observe ideological shifts. We question that the present tangling of corporate and university objectives is beneficial to labor, particularly computer science students, and the general public.