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Atlas of AI

Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

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Atlas of AI

By: 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.

©2021 Kate Crawford (P)2021 Tantor
Business & Careers Computer Science Artificial Intelligence
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Performance a little dry

Found the chosen narration to be a bit dry. But text itself was informative, researched, and interesting.

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Good info

Good information in this book. We are controlled and watched all the time. live in woods to have a privacy:)😁

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Good think through of AI

Excellent presentation of research on institutional and systemic political questions that make AI less useful than the AI marketing propagandized. The 'why' of less useful is explored.

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Amazing, must read for AI buffs and others

Brilliantly crafted exposition of the underbelly of AI and indeed big tech. A must read for technologists, researchers as well as startup founders and investors.

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Meh

Content is good and well worth knowing but this book is way too wordy in telling its story. There are also technical inaccuracies that are annoying but not critical. Lastly, the title gives the wrong impression. It should be something along the lines of "The true cost of AI"

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A fascinating and thought provoking examination of

This book offers a very different and refreshing angle on AI from others I've read, exploring the environmental and human impacts, and how AI systems are built on very human systems, inevitably taking on their biases and blind spots. Highly recommended for anyone interested in technology.

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A well-written introductory piece on icebergs and human technology

This piece serves as a reasonable introduction to some challenges of scaling technology on a planet teaming with life and is of an appropriate length as such.

This piece comes at some challenges of a current human position in space-time at an oblique angle, making it more informative than impactful. A useful piece within its limits.

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Her Powerful Summary of the Risks of Uncontrolled AI is worthwhile.

Crawford’s survey of the current (2021) state of AI Development in many areas was very well done. Even since then we’ve seen the unbelievable speed with which it has been introduced and implemented totally without any reflection or regulation.

In yet another case of “Since we can, we will!”. Now we will get to survive it. Or Not.

In her final Chapter, she lays out the potential consequences. Unfortunately she fails to offer a Plan going forward. Maybe because there is none possible. The Genie is out of the bottle. Four Stars. ****

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Mind opening

Amazing writing about AI in its current stage and how it's illusion has been crafted by the zero some gain of the power structures

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fantastic and informative

really eye opening. learned a lot and the presentation was wonderful. i fear that will all the work occuring in the application of AI, a second volume will be warranted.

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