Reading The Black Technical Object
I’m reading Ramon Amaro’s book while in motion and these are notes to timestamp my appraisal. Just old school blogging.
I came to this book out a felt sense of urgency about the formal subsumption of cognition by AIs such as the newly released ChatGPT.
I find the work of Alexander Weheliye, Simone Browne, and Kara Keeling indispensable for thinking about the intersection of race and technology, and I’m on the hunt for a treatise that is as put to date as possible while not yet in ChatGPT’s training data.
[At the time of this writing, ChatGPT had no record of The Black Technical Object, whereas Bard was able to write a competent book review that mostly rehashed the book jacket description.]
I’m at my gate, so more anon.