“White Crisis” and/as “Existential Risk,” or the Entangled Apocalypticism of Artificial Intelligence

Ali, Syed Mustafa

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“…In the formula, a(t) is the average dissimilarity or distance between the sample point t in cluster C and all other samples in the cluster [14].…”

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Framework of the Smart Finance and Accounting Management Model under the Artificial Intelligence Perspective

Chen

2021

Mobile Information Systems

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With the establishment of modern enterprise systems and the emergence of some large-scale enterprise groups formed through asset reorganization, industry alliances, and cross-industry mergers, new requirements have been put forward for the financial management mode of enterprise groups. This article mainly studies the development of the smart accounting management model architecture under the artificial intelligence perspective. On the accounting sharing service platform, the accounting sharing center does not belong to the logistics branch of any region. Through the accounting sharing center, it provides unified and standardized accounting, asset management, currency revenue and expenditure, etc., for the branches of the logistics company. At the same time, in the network environment, the financial and accounting sharing platform is not unilaterally closed. As each branch under unified management, it has the power to feedback, suggest, and supervise the financial and accounting sharing platform. When testing, one only needs to focus on the external properties of the program, without considering the internal logical structure and internal characteristics of the program at all. The system under test is regarded as a sealed black box, and the boundary value analysis method, the equivalence class division method, and causality are used. Technical methods such as the graph method and error speculation method are tested at the system interface to detect whether the function of each test can receive and output the results correctly. The implementation of the accounting management model of accounting shared services must ensure that the evaluation results of related work are objective and accurate. It is necessary to ensure that the evaluation index system has a high degree of quantification. In the specific scoring, the full score system can be used to score points by experts to ensure the objectivity of the evaluation results and accuracy while improving the operability and enforceability of the evaluation work. The average value of the operating net profit margin is 0.088731, and the median value is 0.082263. The results show that artificial intelligence technology has greatly promoted the development of the smart accounting management model architecture.

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“…In the formula, a(t) is the average dissimilarity or distance between the sample point t in cluster C and all other samples in the cluster [14].…”

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Framework of the Smart Finance and Accounting Management Model under the Artificial Intelligence Perspective

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“…Drawing on other scholars, however, I have shown that even in the ancient world not all communities we might label apocalyptic were on the social margins (2010, 26). Elsewhere, I have been criticized for insufficient attention to questions of race, ethnicity, and colonialism (Ali 2019). I have attempted to take such criticisms seriously and have shifted my approach (e.g., Geraci 2018, 20–3).…”

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A Hydra‐logical Approach: Acknowledging Complexity in the Study of Religion, Science, and Technology

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2020

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Scholarship has grown increasingly nuanced in its grappling with the intersections of religion, science, and technology but requires a new paradigm. Contemporary approaches to specific technologies reveal a wide variety of perspectives but remain too often committed to typological classification. To be vigilant of our obligation to understand and reveal, scholars in the study of religion, science, and technology can adopt a hydra-logical stance: we can recognize that there are cultural monsters possessing scientific, technological, and religious heads. These heads may work with a common agenda or they might not. They might disagree, pulling their shared body back and forth in a public commotion that lays waste to their surroundings. They might see past one another or move in tandempurposively or not. Evaluations of climate response and AI benefit from seeing how the various heads are inseparable: indeed, cutting one off simply promotes the growth of new heads. Methodological and analytical clarity, therefore, emerges in the transition from schemes of classification to the recognition of hydras.

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“…Second, Katz maintains that "AI serves the aims of whiteness -and thus is a tool in the arsenal of a white supremacist social order -but that it also mirrors the nebulous and shifting form of whiteness as an ideology" (155). While prosthetic and ideological readings of AI are quite plausible, I want to suggest they are not exhaustive of possibilities in terms of the relationship between AI and white supremacy; in my own work, for example, I interpret AI as an ontological refinement within the iterative logic of whiteness/white supremacy itself, one prompted by "White Crisis" (itself prompted by contestation of whiteness) and conceptualised in terms of shifts about "the line of the human" (Ali 2019(Ali , 2020. In short, rather than "AI [being] adapted, like whiteness, to challenges from social movements" (155), I want to suggest that AI is an adaptive iteration of whiteness itself.…”

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Yarden Katz. Artificial Whiteness: Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence

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2022

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It has been said that, by standing on the shoulders of giants, one gets to see further, and in Artificial Whiteness, Yarden Katz stands on the shoulders of various figures in critical race theory and other disciplines to mount a critique of artificial intelligence for its alleged complicity with imperialism, capitalism, and the maintenance, expansion, and refinement of white supremacy.Setting the tone of the book from the very outset as an exploration of the politics and ideology rather than the history of AI, Katz refers in the Preface to the "avalanche of 'AI' propaganda", and "a depressing willingness on the part of academics to serve empire and the corporate world with remarkable flexibility" (x). The author, a white male anti-Zionist Jew of mixed Arab, North African, and Bulgarian Sephardic ancestry -and I mention this because he provides an autobiographical note exploring the "personal motivation" for his study in the Introduction, namely, "the settler-colonialist coordinate system connecting Jewishness and whiteness" (16) -is explicit about his concern to interrogate the "self-evident discourse on AI" by focusing on its discursive constitution, "read[ing] AI's present through its past and . . . examining the political and ideological projects served by its reappearances" (3), that is, the maintenance of white supremacy under neoliberalism and the advancement of settler colonial, carceral, and surveillant projects.Crucially, Katz insists that "from the start, AI was nebulous and contested" (5), and he points to the need for empire and capital to iteratively rearticulate its value given such contestation, "each of AI's iterations [having] produced racialized, gendered, and classed models of the self, delivered with imperialist rhetorics of colonization and conquest" (7) On his reading, AI serves a dual purpose: politically, it functions as a prosthesis in the maintenance of racial social order and the advance of imperialist and capitalist projects; ideologically, it functions as a site for reinscribing the invisibility of whiteness. As he says, "to understand AI's formation, trajectory, and function . . . it should be viewed as a technology of whiteness: a tool that not only serves the aims of white supremacy but also reflects the form of whiteness as an ideology." Importantly, in this connection, Katz maintains that "AI takes the form of a makeshift patchwork" which he characterises as "nebulous and shifting" and which mimics "the structure of whiteness as an ideology" (9), thereby suggesting AI functions as a floating signifier for imperialist racial capitalism (20, 27, 35, 163). As an interesting discursive aside, Katz indicates a

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“White Crisis” and/as “Existential Risk,” or the Entangled Apocalypticism of Artificial Intelligence

Cited by 14 publications

References 43 publications

Framework of the Smart Finance and Accounting Management Model under the Artificial Intelligence Perspective

Framework of the Smart Finance and Accounting Management Model under the Artificial Intelligence Perspective

A Hydra‐logical Approach: Acknowledging Complexity in the Study of Religion, Science, and Technology

Yarden Katz. Artificial Whiteness: Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence

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