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To review Kate Crawford's Atlas of AI and evaluate how commercial artificial intelligence infrastructure drives planetary resource extraction, labor inequities, and centralized political power.

March 1, 2022Perspectives on Science and Christian FaithOpen Access

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

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KCKate CrawfordUniversity of Southern California

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Critical review examines the material, ethical, and political footprints of artificial intelligence systems, highlighting the urgent need for responsible technological oversight.

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To review Kate Crawford's Atlas of AI and evaluate how commercial artificial intelligence infrastructure drives planetary resource extraction, labor inequities, and centralized political power.
Critical academic book review synthesizing Crawford's analysis of artificial intelligence infrastructure, planetary costs, and socio-technical histories.
Qualitative evaluation of algorithmic decision systems, automated surveillance technologies, and tech-sector business models against ethical computing standards.
Qualitatively highlights that artificial intelligence requires extensive physical infrastructure, including mineral strip mining, intense energy consumption for data centers, and low-wage digital labor.
Identifies that automated decision-making and surveillance tools encode historical human prejudices, frequently producing biased outcomes under the false impression of algorithmic neutrality.
Concludes that technology creators share a moral responsibility to mitigate unintentional harms and prioritize equitable practices over cost reduction and computational efficiency.

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Kate Crawford (2022) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e46b7261e1519c6da4701b https://doi.org/10.56315/pscf3-22crawford

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Critical review examines the material, ethical, and political footprints of artificial intelligence systems, highlighting the urgent need for responsible technological oversight.

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

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

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