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Author Crawford, Kate, 1976- author

Title Atlas of AI : power, politics, and the planetary costs of artificial intelligence / Kate Crawford
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Earth -- Labor -- Data -- Classification -- Affect -- State -- Conclusion : Power -- Coda : space
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 24, 2022)
Subject Artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence -- Sociological aspects
Artificial intelligence -- Political aspects
Artificial Intelligence
artificial intelligence.
COMPUTERS / Intelligence (AI) & Semantics.
Artificial intelligence
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300252392
0300252390
Other Titles Atlas of artificial intelligence : power, politics, and the planetary costs of artificial intelligence