Atlas of AI
Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

In the “German Ideology”, Marx denounced the abstract, impersonal, ahistorical, and necessary pronouncements of metaphysics, philosophy, religion, law, economics, science, and so on - as power structures used by the capitalist system in its quest for domination and profit. These days it is quite fas......more

I have been in the middle of this for so many months so honestly good to just finish a book LOL. I found the first two chapters (Earth and Labor, specifically the first bits about mining and the really detailed description of Mechanical Turk) really interesting but felt like, as the book went on, it......more

This is probably my favorite of all the books tech-and-politics bookclub (even though I'm reading it half a year later whoops). I haven't yet found another book in this area with as much intersectional knowledge. Crawford has a robust background in tech journalism, and her acknowledgements further d......more

Het boek belicht een belangrijk en doorgaans genegeerd aspect van AI; de vervuiling. Energie, water, mineralen, AI is niet een cloud, niet disembodied en geen software. De ruggengraat van AI is de aarde en haar grondstoffen. Het heeft zijn wortels in de materiële realiteit, op de meest letterlijke m......more

This feels like a bad time to review this book, because I'm a bit oversaturated on the "let's discuss AI" moment that's happening right now, but I'll do it anyways. Starting with the good things: I really liked the 'atlas' framing. An atlas is not a map that purports to objectively convey its territ......more