We’re confused about AI: what it is, and where it’s leading us – whether into a utopia or an apocalypse. Yet these obsessions thwart efforts to make meaningful change in an industry with very real problems. Here, Dr Eleanor Drage, one of the world’s leading AI ethicists, unpicks the culture and ideas that drive the AI arms race, from billionaires trying to cheat death to biased police algorithms and state capture by big tech. We need new language and new ideas to re-determine what AI is for and how we should use it. Only by bringing feminism, reparative justice and climate politics into the debate can we create a better future with machines. A timely and much-needed book. Eleanor Drage debunks a range of AI myths and suggests we should not be leaving it up to the AI ‘experts’. Instead, she proposes possible ways to shift power back to the people — Carole Cadwalladr A brilliantly illuminating book that reveals the deep political forces shaping AI and offers a compelling vision of a more democratic and feminist technological future — James Muldoon, author of LOVE MACHINES A clear-eyed analysis of corporate power and ethics-washing, and a warm, thoughtful account of the people already doing something about it — Margaret Mitchell, Chief Ethics Scientist, Hugging Face It’s rare to find informed perspectives on AI that have both the imagination and the courage to counter the dominant narrative.
