Truth, Power and Code: Postmodern Theory and AI

Postmodern theory questions the foundations of knowledge, truth, and objectivity that modernity took for granted. It examines how power shapes what counts as knowledge, how categories and classifications are constructed rather than discovered, and how claims to neutrality and universality frequently disguise particular interests and perspectives. Applied to artificial intelligence, postmodern theory is uniquely equipped to interrogate the claims AI systems make about truth and objectivity. When a predictive algorithm classifies someone as high-risk, whose definition of risk is being applied? When a language model represents the world, whose world is it representing?