Atlas of AI
Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
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Narrated by:
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Larissa Gallagher
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Kate Crawford
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The hidden costs of artificial intelligence - from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom.
What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning scholar Kate Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the minerals drawn from the earth, to the labor pulled from low-wage information workers, to the data taken from every action and expression. This book reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequity. Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a material and political perspective on what it takes to make AI and how it centralizes power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-11-2023
The big issues.
This fantastic book spends a good deal of time looking at the very real potential dangers of AI. Everything is covered from the environmental impact to how AI is racist and the very real danger of it misgendering people.
Kate has clearly spent too much time on campus. Yawn.
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- Sheri Goldie
- 05-12-2022
A fascinating journey through the landscape of AI
I really enjoyed the conversational tone and framing of this work. Crawford leads us along a path, navigating the terrain of AI production, implementation, and all rhe interesting and unseen segues in between. It is a journey that uncovers many hard truths, without getting bogged down in the technicality or overwhelming scope that is AI programming.
I get the sense that this work is leaning towards AI, how we see it and how it is used now, as being problematic. Without trying to solve the issues, Crawford guides us along the ways AI is already being used that highlight a history of convenient obfuscation, and unintended bias. It is easy to agree, but it also opens up a wider conversation around AI and its production that feels more pertinent and important than the AI itself.
I highly recommend this work.
Gallagher's narration was a pleasure to listen to, and I greatly enjoyed her performance.
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- Ross Adamson
- 16-07-2024
Excellent explanation of AI
The author explains the rise of AI in a thoroughly compelling way. From the extraction of vital minerals to the micro management of human labour in Amazon factories to the development of facial and emotional recognition technologies. All explained in a simple but well researched style. Written before the explosion of CHATGPT into the public arena, this book provides a necessary introduction to AI. The narrator presents the arguments of the author in a measured, balanced, and concise tone that is never tiring or laboured. Can recommend the book, the author and the narrator.
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