‘Digital Colonialism’

Grace Browne, Wired, AI Is Steeped in Big Tech’s ‘Digital Colonialism’, 25 May 2023 “Artificial intelligence has infiltrated almost every aspect of our lives: It can determine whether you get hired, diagnose you with cancer, or make decisions about whether to release prisoners on parole. AI systems are often trained on gargantuan data sets, usually scraped from the web for cost-effectiveness and ease. But this means AI can inherit all the biases of the humans who design them, and any present in the data that feeds them. The end result mirrors society, with all the ugliness baked in.” I’m writing about this in my next book.