Atlas of AI : power, politics, and the planetary costs of artificial intelligence / Kate Crawford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, Kate, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.

Artificial intelligence--Political aspects.

Artificial intelligence--Environmental aspects.

Artificial intelligence--Sociological aspects.

Artificial Intelligence.

artificial intelligence.

Medical Subjects:

Artificial Intelligence.

Physical Description:

327 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, map, portraits ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Atlas of artificial intelligence : power, politics, and the planetary costs of artificial intelligence

Power, politics, and the planetary costs of artificial intelligence

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]

Biography/History:

Kate Crawford is a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, the inaugural visiting chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure, and the Miegunyah distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne. She co-founded the AI Now Institute at New York University, and leads the Foundations of Machine Learning international working group. She lives in New York City.

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."-- Publisher's website.

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 shows 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 account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world. --From publisher description.

Contents:

Earth

Labor

Data

Classification

Affect

State

Power

Space.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-313) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Crawford, Kate, 1976- Atlas of AI.

ISBN:

9780300209570

0300209576

9780300264630

0300264631

OCLC:

1111967630