Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

“Murgia is, in theory, very positive towards technology, but she’s looking at the dark underbelly of what it means across the world, for those who are what she calls ‘slaves to the AI revolution,’ whose job it is to monitor social media, day in day out, or who are labelling images of roads so that AI can learn what a street sign is and what a piece of tarmac looks like. She also looks at some of the ways in which it can be a positive, always from the human side of the story. I came away never wanting to accept cookies again. It’s essential reading.” Read more...

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