Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power

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19 points·tmfi··8 comments

This article is about Kate Crawford‘s new book Atlas of AI. So far, an excellent read that has shifted my viewpoint a bit. She writes about how AI is physically embodied in the world.

This again. I'm learning to notice that someone important wants to kill a tech by the power consumption point coming up in conjunction with it.

"let’s actually look at who’s running the levers of these systems. That means shifting away from just focusing on things like ethical principles to talking about power."

"We’re looking at a profound concentration of power into extraordinarily few hands"

I think you are using the wrong definition of power to frame this article

>the physical impact

You caught me. I didn't realize that the author having misused this above expression would point to how big a piece of trash the rest of the article would be. Had I done my due diligence, I wouldn't even have bothered commenting.

> Had I done my due diligence, I wouldn't even have bothered commenting.

I so wish you would have done that before posting most of your comments.

Didn't know I had a fan.

You have two now. I don't get the underhanded call out.

Different strokes I guess?

I've gotten scolded for doing things like that, but it's 2021, so selective enforcement on Very Important platforms is nothing surprising.

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