Wells and VanderVeen. 2026. "An Anthropological Understanding of Artificial Intelligence Transformations in Civic and Domestic Life, Labor, and Higher Education Through the Cybernetic Organism (Cyborg) Concept." Maguare 40(1). https://www.proquest.com/openview/639ef067e3f8c2598a88bcf491d198b1
"This essay uses cyborg anthropology to model interactions between humans and artificial intelligence (AI) and highlights potential strengths and weaknesses of AI regarding learning and innovation. Informed by Haraway’s emphases on inequalities, we recognize AI is neither a separate nor superior form of intelligence, but a tool that augments human agency. Current examples of AI implementation in the civic, domestic, labor, and educational domains expose the potential of AI for biases and oppression as a human construct that reflects and affects the sociocultural and ethical values of its creators and users. These examples inform practical and ethical considerations for the development and use of AI in the future, including structured human-AI collaboration, promotion of human-AI literacy, respect for human dignity and rights, and addressing inherent biases and inequalities."
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