Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
人工智能图景：权力、政治与人工智能的行星代价
Authors: Kate Crawford （凯特·克劳福德）
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Pages: 336
About Book:
What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of research, award‑winning scholar Kate Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the minerals drawn from the earth to the labor pulled from low-wage information workers to the data taken from every action and expression.
Crawford reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequity. Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a material and political perspective on what it takes to make AI and how it centralizes power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world.
关于书籍：
当人工智能渗透政治生活并耗尽地球资源时会发生什么？AI如何塑造我们对我们自身及社会的理解？凭借十余年的研究，获奖学者凯特·克劳福德揭示了AI如何成为一种提取技术：从地球上开采的矿物，到从低薪信息工作者那里榨取的劳动，再到从每一个行动与表达中获取的数据。克劳福德揭示了这种行星网络如何推动着向非民主治理与加剧不平等的转变。克劳福德并未狭隘地关注代码与算法，而是从物质与政治的视角，审视制造AI所需的条件及其如何集中权力。这是一份紧迫的记述，揭示了科技公司利用人工智能重塑世界时所涉及的利害关系。
About Author：
Kate Crawford is a leading scholar of the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. Her work has focused on understanding machine learning and AI in the wider contexts of history, politics, labor, and the environment. She is a Research Professor at USC Annenberg, a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York, and she currently holds the inaugural Visiting Chair for AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
关于作者
凯特·克劳福德（Kate Crawford）是研究人工智能社会与政治影响的领军学者。她的工作致力于从历史、政治、劳动和环境等更广泛的背景下理解机器学习和人工智能。她是南加州大学安嫩伯格学院的研究教授、纽约微软研究院的高级首席研究员，目前还担任巴黎高等师范学院首届人工智能与正义访问讲席教授。
编译：刘鑫
