Neither artificial nor intelligent - Kate Crawford on AI

Kate Crawford joins PTO to talk about her book, Atlas of AI: Power,
Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. We
talked about why some proponents of AI are so convinced - against
so much evidence - that systems of machine learning will truly be
able to replicate human intelligence, and how the extraordinary
material impacts of AI systems - from rare earth mining to
electrical power needs - tend not to be discussed. We also talked
about the early history of statistical analysis and the new
discipline's relationship to eugenics. And finally we discussed how
workplace surveillance systems, in spite of their apparent novelty,
are in some ways replicating the practices of managerial control of
the early factory system.