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Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford
Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
Yale University Press, 2021
New Yorker style of overview, history, and background.
Energy suck, water drain, workers pushed to near serfdom. Pillage of natural resources and minerals.
Ford didn’t mean to kill a planet with his model T. And the assembly line.
But here we are. Killing the planet one YouTube and Amazon box at a time.
Or, whatcha gonna do when the lithium runs out?