The Politics of Classification

 
 
The politics of classification is a core practice of today’s artificial intelligence-making
— Andrea Resmini

Large Language Models put the power of natural language processing in the reach of everyone, but with great power comes great responsibility — which makes this guest lecture by Andrea Resmini at Dan Klyn’s information architecture class at the U-M School of Information all the more important. There is no “universal” way to classify something. It is essential that humans curate and steward the classifications made by AI.