Atlas of AI

Award-winning scholar Kate Crawford dismantles the hype surrounding artificial intelligence, revealing its profound "hidden costs" to natural resources, labor, privacy, and freedom. Arguing AI is a technology of extraction—from earthly minerals and low-wage workers to personal data—Crawford exposes how this planetary network centralizes power and fuels undemocratic governance and increased inequity. This urgent, critically acclaimed account offers a vital material and political perspective on AI's true impact and what is at stake as it reshapes our world.

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This literature has been indexed under the primary pillar of Technology. It was manually vetted for the Read For Truth database because it provides educational insights into Artificial Intelligence, assisting researchers in locating established secondary research within this specific taxonomy.