The Atlas of AI

Super interesting and important view on how our planet, workforce and society are impacted while we're marching towards a future that will contain more and more computation. There are so many invisible aspects to computation/the-cloud/A.I. that are glanced over while we drool over all the good it can do.

I especially enjoyed the chapters on mining of the previous metals it takes to build the A.I. infrastructure, the chapter on labor about how A.I. driven workplace management treats humans as machines. While the middle of the book had more well-known A.I.-warnings with a focus on where the data comes from and all the ways we wrongfully classify it, it ends really strong with a chapter on the power dynamics that are encoded into A.I., that reinforce existing exploitative and unbalanced power structures. A whole chapter dedicated to emotion-recognition felt a bit too detailed and narrow for this scope. But it wouldn't be an ‘atlas' if it wouldn't contain all the avenues.