This Researcher Says AI Is Neither Artificial nor Intelligent
Kate Crawford, who holds positions at USC and Microsoft, says in a new book that even experts working on the technology misunderstand AI.
Researcher Kate Crawford says AI consumes vast natural resources, not unlike a lithium mine.Photograph: Marcelo Perez del Carpio/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Technology companies like to portray artificial intelligence as a precise and powerful tool for good. Kate Crawford says that mythology is flawed. In her book Atlas of AI, she visits a lithium mine, an Amazon warehouse, and a 19th-century phrenological skull archive to illustrate the natural resources, human sweat, and bad science underpinning some versions of the technology. Crawford, a professor at the University of Southern California and researcher at Microsoft, says many applications and side effects of AI are in urgent need of regulation.
Crawford recently discussed these issues with WIRED senior writer Tom Simonite. An edited transcript follows.
WIRED: Few people understand all the technical details of artificial intelligence. You argue that some experts working on the technology misunderstand AI more deeply.
https://www.wired.com/story/researcher-says-ai-not-artificial-intelligent/
