“Blessed by the algorithm”: Theistic conceptions of artificial intelligence in online discourse

B Singler - AI & society, 2020 - Springer
Abstract “My first long haul flight that didn't fill up and an empty row for me. I have been
blessed by the algorithm”. The phrase 'blessed by the algorithm'expresses the feeling of …

The AI creation meme: A case study of the new visibility of religion in artificial intelligence discourse

B Singler - Religions, 2020 - mdpi.com
Through a consideration of examples of the AI Creation Meme, a remix of Michelangelo's
Creazione di Adamo featuring a human hand and a machine hand nearly touching, fingertip …

Echoes of myth and magic in the language of artificial intelligence

R Musa Giuliano - AI & society, 2020 - Springer
To a greater extent than in other technical domains, research and progress in Artificial
Intelligence has always been entwined with the fictional. Its language echoes strongly with …

Artificial intelligence and democracy: A conceptual framework

A Jungherr - Social media+ society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The success and widespread deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) have raised
awareness of the technology's economic, social, and political consequences. Each new step …

Truth as social practice in a digital era: iteration as persuasion

CLE Foster - AI & SOCIETY, 2023 - Springer
This article reflects on the problem of false belief produced by the integrated psychological
and algorithmic landscape humans now inhabit. Following the work of scholars such as Lee …

“AI will fix this”–The technical, discursive, and political turn to AI in governing communication

C Katzenbach - Big Data & Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Technologies of “artificial intelligence”(AI) and machine learning (ML) are increasingly
presented as solutions to key problems of our societies. Companies are developing …

Tracing the evolution of AI: conceptualization of artificial intelligence in mass media discourse

Y Zhai, J Yan, H Zhang, W Lu - Information discovery and delivery, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose This study/paper aims to understand the public perceptions of AI through mass
media discourse. In the past few years, significant progress has been made in the field of …

How to translate artificial intelligence? Myths and justifications in public discourse

J Roberge, M Senneville, K Morin - Big Data & Society, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Automated technologies populating today's online world rely on social expectations about
how “smart” they appear to be. Algorithmic processing, as well as bias and missteps in the …

A social science perspective on artificial intelligence: Building blocks for a research agenda

S Lindgren, J Holmström - Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR), 2020 - diva-portal.org
In this article, we discuss and outline a research agenda for social science research on
artificial intelligence. We present four overlapping building blocks that we see as keys for …

Structured like a language model: Analysing AI as an automated subject

L Magee, V Arora, L Munn - Big Data & Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing from the resources of psychoanalysis and critical media studies, in this article we
develop an analysis of large language models (LLMs) as 'automated subjects'. We argue the …