Artificial intelligence has moved from the lab into everyday life, and is now seemingly everywhere. Arguably, there are as many foci of concern about AI as there are implementations of it. AI and Assembly invites readers to explore a fundamental, and over-looked, issue: the interaction between artificial intelligence and freedom of assembly. This freedom is core to collective action, civil society, and liberal democracy. Now, as sensors collect, analyze, and make data-driven decisions about us when we are using screens and when we are not; when we are inside our homes and outside in public; when we are in transit or asleep; when we're alone and when we're together, we must address AI's impact on assembly. Where and how does assembly take place, why, and who participates by choice and who by coercion?

From audits of Facebook's algorithms to campaigns against facial recognition, from secretive technological experiments to rideshare drivers advocating for fair pay, AI and Assembly provides a unique view and global perspectives on the future of assembly in a world taken over by AI, as well as to envision of a more just digital future.

About the Author
Toussaint Nothias is Clinical Associate Professor at XE and affiliated faculty in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Lucy Bernholz is a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University's Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and Director of the Digital Civil Society Lab.


Book Information
ISBN 9781503638556
Author Toussaint Nothias
Format Paperback
Page Count 184
Imprint Stanford University Press
Publisher Stanford University Press