Artificial intelligence from a critical perspective: anthropological contributions and technological imaginaries

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.247301

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Artificial intelligence, Ethnography, Technology, Digital anthropology, Technopolitics

Abstract

With the growing popularity of artificial intelligence (AI), especially the so-called generative AI, the aim of this Special Issue is to bring into discussion the possible meanings of adopting artificial intelligence in everyday life, proposing, above all, more complex perspectives on processes that are far from being simply good or bad, pleasurable or dangerous. In this sense, drawing on articles characterized by multidisciplinarity and a diversity of approaches, it reflects on the meanings of AI across different spheres of life - education, facial recognition technologies, therapy, and journalism - as well as raising important questions about the ethical limits of its development and use.

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Published

2025-11-22

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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2025)

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Dossiê inteligência artificial em perspectiva crítica: contribuições antropológicas e imaginários tecnológicos

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Parreiras, Carolina. 2025. “Artificial Intelligence from a Critical Perspective: Anthropological Contributions and Technological Imaginaries”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 10 (1): e247301. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.247301.

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