This brings us to the second wave of modern eugenics, which differs from the first wave, most notably, with respect to its methodology. Whereas first-wave eugenicists strove to improve the “human stock” by altering society-wide patterns of …Mehtab Khan and Alex Hanna, 2022. “The subjects and stages of AI dataset development: A framework for dataset accountability,” SSRN (13 September). doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4217148, accessed 31 January 2024.
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Tom Koch
philosopher · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Tom Koch appears in the course readings as a theorist of eugenics and its historical trajectories, particularly in discussions of how eugenic logics have shifted from population-level reproduction management to algorithmic and computational forms. His work seems positioned to help trace continuities between early twentieth-century eugenics and contemporary AI systems, suggesting that dataset development and machine learning encode similar biopolitical assumptions about which lives or traits are "improvable" or optimizable. This genealogical move is crucial for the seminar's investigation of how cybernetic and AI systems inherit and reconfigure older eugenic frameworks.
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