人類学と人工知能ハンドブック Handbook on Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence

Udupa, Sahana (EDT)/ Hervik, Peter (EDT)

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd（2026/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 518 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781035342198

Full Description

This timely Handbook provides a groundbreaking collection of anthropological research on Artificial Intelligence (AI), examining how anthropology can help to comprehend and critique its development. Evaluating the limits, hopes and fears of AI, leading experts explore its influence as a sociocultural phenomenon rather than a discrete technological system.

Through an ethnographic lens, the Handbook analyzes human-machine entanglements as they have emerged in AI companions, healthcare, automated policing, warfare, conversational chatbots and fact checking. Chapters assume theoretical perspectives to scrutinize AI power and how AI evolves on the ground in ethnographic locations and case studies from across the globe. Assessing the current state of AI, the collection examines its implications for the future, in areas ranging from climate change to politics.

The Handbook on Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence is a valuable resource for students and scholars of anthropology, science and technology, innovation, media and communication and sociology. It will also be prime reading for journalists, policymakers and practitioners seeking a deeper understanding of the impact of AI on the world.

Contents

Contents
Introduction: anthropology of artificial intelligence 1
Sahana Udupa and Peter Hervik
PART I FUTURES, FUTURITIES, CRITIQUE
1 Artificial intelligence futures: anticipatory infrastructures for engaged
scholarship 22
Sarah Pink, Melisa Duque, Robert Lundberg and Zane Pinyon
2 Nascence and AI futurities 33
Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta
3 Perspectivism and purposiveness toward an ancestral future: cutting AI's
guts open 48
Beatrice Bonami
4 The depeche mode principle: communicational antimatter as the
anthropological frontier of AI 61
Gabriel A. Medina-Aguilar, Jair E. Rivera-Tovar and Miguel H. De la
Vega Espinosa
PART II ANTHROPOLOGY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: METHODOLOGICAL
FRAMES
5 Anthropology of artificial intelligence: agency, powerful knowledge, and
the algorithmic other 74
Michael D. Fischer and Sally A. Applin
6 Prompt ethnography: critical methodology for generative AI 88
Sahana Udupa
7 AI as participant observer 103
Kevin Walker
8 Artificial fieldwork? Speculating about the opportunities and challenges of
VR-assisted ethnographic fieldwork in AI-generated virtual worlds 116
Rafael Verbuyst
9 Understanding the effects of childhood trauma through AI-assisted
ethnography 129
Gabriele Carmelo Rosato
PART III AI IN PRACTICE: MAKING AND TWEAKING AI
10 AI as user: imagined futures in games user research 151
Joshua D. Rubin
11 Localizing the AI: an ethnography of balancing acts between the
stakeholders in the periphery 167
Erkan Saka
12 The language of AI: on the work of metaphor and metapragmatics in
making artificial intelligence 181
Tariq Adely
13 Generative AI and discourses of design 197
Mark Allen Peterson and Thea Peterson
14 Early generative technologies and the Western aristocracy of labour 211
Javier Ruiz del Río and Xin Zhan
15 Dapping to the end of love: algorithms and food delivery riders 224
Montserrat Cañedo-Rodríguez and Diego Allen-Perkins
PART IV LIVING WITH AI
16 Presencing the past with AI: virtual survivor testimonies and the
Holocaust memory assemblage 238
Christoph Bareither and Berit Zimmerling
17 The interplay between doctors and AI: the case of Norway and China 252
Zongtian Guo and Roanne van Voorst
18 Navigating ambivalences: chronic living with "AI" 267
Sophie Wagner
19 Therapeutic ideology and AI personhood: an anthropological inquiry into
AI companionship 280
Fartein Hauan Nilsen
20 The anthropology of GenAI and the question about digital violence 294
Veronica Barassi
21 Celebrity face-swaps and bikini beauties: the circulation of synthetic
pornography in China 308
Gabriele de Seta
PART V THE AI WEAPON
22 Israel, AI, and the military 323
Sophia Goodfriend
23 Militarizing AI: the risks of algorithmic warfare 334
Roberto J. González
24 Discourse on technological sovereignty and disciplining practices in
contemporary Russia 351
Aleksandr Manuilov
25 Sociotechnical imaginaries of AI and datafication of migration 364
Kaarina Nikunen, Karoliina Talvitie-Lamberg and Sanna Valtonen
26 AI in policing: reflections of police practices 378
Lucien Schönenberg
27 Entanglements in the process of adopting, developing, and regulating AI:
mapping guidelines, disputes, and imaginaries from Brazil 389
Carolina Parreiras and Cilmara Veiga
PART VI COLONIALITY, BIAS, DISINFORMATION
28 Towards a decolonial AI? (Re)visiting contentious artificial intelligence
issues in Africa 403
Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam and Roseline Chioma Muonanu
29 Narrative frames and re-framing narratives: from AI as labor futures and
regulation to AI as precarities and problematics 418
Sareeta Amrute
30 AI and the climate crisis: power, ideology, and the politics of collapse 430
Paul Schütze
31 Under the skin: AI, technology, and race in China 443
Christina Kefala
32 Does AI contribute to ignorance and foster indifference, nihilism, and
violent identity politics? 456
Peter Hervik
33 AI and the fact-checking movement: facts, fakes, and the battle for visual
trust 470
Mihai Andrei Leaha and Roger Canals