Facial recognition enacts computational epistemicide by progressively reducing faces to standardized numerical vectors, rendering reformist ethical AI insufficient and requiring abolition of vectorized identity as a basis for rights.
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The paper argues that preoccupation with the moral status of hypothetical future AI creates an algorithmic blind spot that marginalizes existing algorithmic harms to human populations and calls for re-centering ethics on current institutional accountability.
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Frankenstein in the Pipeline: Computational Epistemicide in Facial Recognition
Facial recognition enacts computational epistemicide by progressively reducing faces to standardized numerical vectors, rendering reformist ethical AI insufficient and requiring abolition of vectorized identity as a basis for rights.
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The Algorithmic Blind Spot: Bias, Moral Status, and the Future of Robot Rights
The paper argues that preoccupation with the moral status of hypothetical future AI creates an algorithmic blind spot that marginalizes existing algorithmic harms to human populations and calls for re-centering ethics on current institutional accountability.