Artificial Whiteness: Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence Yarden Katz (2020) viii+340pp., US$28 paperback, Columbia University Press, New York, ISBN 978-0231194914

Does technology come into existence tabula rasa? Yarden Katz’s Artificial Whiteness is a compel- ling argument that technology, specifically artificial intelligence (AI) does not come into existence without an ideology. Katz uses his background in the brain and cognitive sciences and his work at Harvard Medical School to speak to the process. The book is broken into three major sections: Formation (chapters 1–2); Self and the Social Order (chapters 1–5); and Alternatives (chapters 6–7). In the introduction, Katz frames the foundation for the understanding of AI as a nebulous notion that serves the ideology of white supremacy (p.9).