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Abstract
In this introduction, we share the process of developing this double special issue for Imaginations: from the call for papers to the articles we present in this first special issue volume, and beyond. When we proposed this special issue in 2024, we began by thinking about how to live and work with the rapidly-changing analyses of artificial intelligence softwares, moral panics, and resistances to and takeups of the already-voracious consumption of existing oppressive datasets and social relations. Building on recent work about rebuilding, revisualizing, repairing, or refusing inevitable pathways for AI ubiquity, we were certain we could find other ways of thinking. Drawing from deep scholarly engagement with issues of ethical database scraping and intellectual property violations, environmental impacts, and workflow interferences and augmentations, we asked contributors: What do we/they/you want to happen next? Where do we want to be next year, or five years from now? What are the next 25 years going to look like? The articles we offer in this special issue are mapping and pushing boundaries around the ways we encounter, engage with, and consider the possibilities for AI. This introduction connects these nine articles and how they rethink the world through Indigenous sovereignty, Ubuntu intelligence, speculative methods in policy and practice; and embedded in visual culture sectors through folklore, innovation, labour, archives, and the environment.
Résumé
Dans cette introduction, nous vous présentons le processus d'élaboration de ce double numéro spécial de la revue Imaginations : de l'appel à contributions aux articles que nous publions dans ce premier volume du numéro spécial, et au-delà. Lorsque nous avons proposé ce numéro spécial en 2024, nous avons commencé par réfléchir à la manière de vivre, et travailler, avec les analyses en constante évolution des logiciels d'intelligence artificielle, les paniques morales, ainsi que les résistances et les adoptions face à la consommation déjà vorace des ensembles de données oppressifs existants et des relations sociales. À partir de travaux récents portant sur la reconstruction, la re-visualisation, la réparation ou le refus des voies inévitables menant à l'omniprésence de l'IA, nous étions convaincues de pouvoir trouver d'autres façons de penser. En nous appuyant sur un engagement académique approfondi sur les questions de l'extraction éthique de données, des violations de la propriété intellectuelle, des impacts environnementaux, ainsi que des interférences et des augmentations des flux de travail, nous avons demandé aux contributeur.ices : Que voulons-nous/veulent-ils/voulez-vous qu'il se passe ensuite ? Où voulons-nous être l'année prochaine, ou dans cinq ans ? À quoi ressembleront les 25 prochaines années ? Les articles que nous proposons dans ce numéro spécial cartographient et repoussent les limites de la manière dont nous rencontrons, abordons et envisageons les possibilités de l'IA. L'introduction qui suit relie ces neuf articles et explique comment ils repensent le monde à travers la souveraineté autochtone, l'intelligence Ubuntu, les méthodes spéculatives en matière de politique et de pratique ; et comment ils s'inscrivent dans les secteurs de la culture visuelle à travers le folklore, l'innovation, le travail, les archives et l'environnement.
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