Yarden Katz is a fellow in the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. He received his PhD in brain and cognitive sciences from MIT in 2014.
In Artificial Whiteness, Yarden Katz takes a deep dive into the history of artificial intelligence in order to reveal its enduring connections not only to the military-industrial complex, but to white supremacy itself. Katz sounds a chilling warning about how amorphous and future-oriented domains of knowledge production like AI -perhaps especially when abetted by the modern university's false claims to both neutrality and benevolence -are able to be hidden from public scrutiny while they produce inequality, violence, and catastrophe in our world. A unique and fascinating study. -- Britt Rusert, author of <i>Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture</i> In this timely, compelling, persuasive, and eye-opening book, Yarden Katz makes profound contributions to knowledge at the intersections of technology, philosophy, and critical race theory. Artificial Whiteness exposes Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a malleable technology of power rooted in raced, classed, and gendered models of the self. Katz reveals how the artifice of whiteness provides the organizing logic of AI and enables its racist and capitalist ideological projects to be disguised as socially neutral technological imperatives. -- George Lipsitz, author of <i>The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics</i>