Iazzolino Gianluca, Stremlau Nicole
Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Inf Technol Dev. 2024 Feb 16;30(4):626-643. doi: 10.1080/02681102.2023.2299351. eCollection 2024.
This article focuses on the AI for Social Good (AI4SG) movement, which aims to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). It argues that, through AI4SG, Big Tech is attempting to advance AI-driven technosolutionism within the development policy and scholarly space creating new opportunities for rent extraction. The article situates AI4SG, within the history of ICT4D. It also highlights the contiguity of AI4SG with the so-called 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR), a framework that places AI and other digital innovations at the center of national and international development and industrial policy agendas. By exploring how Big Tech has attempted to depoliticize datafication, we thus suggest that AI4SG and 4IR are mutually reinforcing discourses that serve the purpose of depoliticizing the development arena by bestowing legitimacy and authority to Big Tech to reshape policy spaces and epistemic infrastructures while inserting themselves, to an unprecedented degree, between the citizen (data) and the state (development and policy).
本文聚焦于人工智能促进社会公益（AI4SG）运动，该运动旨在利用人工智能（AI）和机器学习（ML）来实现联合国可持续发展目标（UN SDGs）。文章认为，通过AI4SG，大型科技公司正试图在发展政策和学术领域推进人工智能驱动的技术解决主义，从而创造新的租金获取机会。本文将AI4SG置于信息通信技术促进发展（ICT4D）的历史背景中进行探讨。它还强调了AI4SG与所谓的第四次工业革命（4IR）之间的紧密联系，4IR这一框架将人工智能和其他数字创新置于国家和国际发展及产业政策议程的核心位置。通过探究大型科技公司如何试图使数据化非政治化，我们进而认为，AI4SG和4IR是相互强化的话语体系，它们通过赋予大型科技公司重塑政策空间和认知基础设施的合法性与权威性，同时以前所未有的程度介入公民（数据）与国家（发展和政策）之间，从而达到使发展领域非政治化的目的。
