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Atlas of AI: Revealing the planetary costs of AI.

The Atlas of AI is a must-read for those interested in understanding the true cost of artificial intelligence. Kate Crawford's unique perspective examines the political and material implications of AI, highlighting the exploitative labor practices and extractive resources needed to sustain its infrastructure. This book offers an urgent warning about the ways in which undemocratic governance and increased inequality might be fueled by the saturation of AI in political life. Crawford's approach is not to focus on code or algorithms but rather the power dynamics behind the technological system of AI.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780300209570

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The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and
labor to privacy 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? In this book Kate Crawford
reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic
governance and increased inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of
research, award-winning science, and technology, Crawford reveals how AI is
a technology of extraction: from the energy and minerals needed to build
and sustain its infrastructure, to the exploited workers behind "automated"
services, to the data AI collects from us. Rather than taking a narrow
focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a political and a material
perspective on what it takes to make artificial intelligence and where it
goes wrong. While technical systems present a veneer of objectivity, they
are always systems of power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake
as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world.


Author: Kate Crawford
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 2021
 

Atlas of AI: Revealing the planetary costs of AI.

The Atlas of AI is a must-read for those interested in understanding the true cost of artificial intelligence. Kate Crawford's unique perspective examines the political and material implications of AI, highlighting the exploitative labor practices and extractive resources needed to sustain its infrastructure. This book offers an urgent warning about the ways in which undemocratic governance and increased inequality might be fueled by the saturation of AI in political life. Crawford's approach is not to focus on code or algorithms but rather the power dynamics behind the technological system of AI.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.