Review of Kate Crawford’s “Atlas of AI”

By Ellen Nantau

In Atlas of AI (Yale 2021), Kate Crawford takes an ambitious and innovative approach to addressing misconceptions surrounding artificial intelligence (AI). Through the course of her book, she reveals the human and planetary resources being appropriated at every stage in AI industry supply chains and their associated social and ecological impacts. In doing so, Crawford irrevocably dispels the illusion that portrays AI as a closed system, of a non-human mind existing free of “social, cultural, historical, and political forces” (Crawford 2021, 4-5).

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