Hello Luminita, 

If you want to go really far back, you could have a look at Dreyfus, who wrote about "Alchemy and AI" in 1965 and worked on his argument (Which is based on phenomenology).
A lot of AI criticism from the 90s on was in STS and Computer Supported Collaborative work. Suchman’s "Plans and Situated Actions" is an ethnomethodology-informed analysis; Overly simplified, the argument is that the classic AI model of Sensing-Planning-Acting does not have the (social) background of ever-sensemaking humans and thus falls short to live up to the expectations (in Suchman’s case that expectation would be an 'intelligent' assistant for complex workflows on a photocopy machine). Collin’s "Artificial Experts" is also an important work from this period (I have not read it though)
I can strongly recommend Adam’s "Artificial Knowing", a feminist critique of two classic projects of artificial intelligence, the "General Problem Solver" and "Cyc" arguing that both are created in the context of  "a masculine youth culture which once again promises an escape from the body". It draws upon Suchman, Collins, Lloyd and others, and thus offers a good overview of the discussions at time of writing (1998)

I think a lot of the arguments are still valid (e.g. that AI is not situated, socially or otherwise and that disembodied knowledge is the ideal), however, the above literature mainly discusses "symbolic" or "Good Old Fashioned" AI, but the  AI approaches of the past decade or so were mainly "connectionist" and statistical ones – "deep learning" etc. Here, there are some of the ethics-focused works that you probably know already, but my knowledge beyond that is a bit more thin. It is certainly worth taking a look at the human work making intelligent services possible, e.g. via Mechanical Turk. Lilli Irani’s work might be a good start (There are also others).

Two rather different perspectives, which apply well to connectionist and symbolic approaches: One is Katherine Hayles with "computing the human" and "How We Became Posthuman" on the ideas of disembodied humans and human intelligence. The other would be Phil Agre’s works e.g. "The Soul Gained and Lost" and "Surveillance and Capture" [1]. Agre also discusses the potential of AI and its relation to the humanities (in "The soul gained…") 

I hope that helps a bit, although, as said, a lot is not super up-to-date.

Jan

[1] An introduction to this text with some references to other works by Agre:  https://www.fordes.de/posts/agre-surveillance_and_capture.html
 
Adam, Alison. Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine. London ; New York: Routledge, 1998.
Agre, Philip E. “The Soul Gained and Lost: Artificial Intelligence as a Philosophical Project.” Stanford Humanities Review 4, no. 2 (1995): 1–19.
Agre, Philip E. “Surveillance and Capture: Two Models of Privacy.” The Information Society 10, no. 2 (April 1, 1994): 101–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.1994.9960162.
Collins, H. M. Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines. Inside Technology. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1990.
Hayles, N. Katherine. “Computing the Human.” Theory, Culture & Society 22, no. 1 (February 1, 2005): 131–51. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276405048438.
Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. 1st ed. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Irani, Lilly. “The Cultural Work of Microwork.” NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY 17, no. 5 (May 1, 2015): 720–39. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444813511926.
Suchman, Lucille Alice. Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions. 2nd ed. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.


On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:56:06 -0700, Luminita-Anda Mandache <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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>Dear colleagues,
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>Currently, I am working on an applied project around AI and I would like to
>gain a better understanding of not only the ethical challenges around AI
>(an aspect much-discussed) but its potential to enhance human
>communication and work or/and criticism from other grounds, ideally from an
>anthropological perspective. What are your reading suggestions on this
>topic? I apologize in advance if this topic was already discussed here.
>
>Thank you!
>Luminita
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