Rocks, Flesh, and Rockets: A Political Ecology of AI

In this talk, Professor Kate Crawford shares findings from her book "Atlas of AI", which maps the global impacts of large-scale computation on the environment, personal data, and human labor. She shares insights from her field work for the book, including visiting lithium mines, Amazon warehouses, and Blue Origin’s rocket base. This work gives insight on the deeper politics and planetary costs of artificial intelligence and its infrastructures, which are generally hidden from public view.

Speaker: Kate Crawford (USC Annenberg)
Moderator: Edward A. Lee (UC Berkeley, USA)

The Digital Humanism Lecture Series is funded by the Vienna Business Agency, a service offered by the City of Vienna, in cooperation with the Faculty of Informatics of TU Wien and TU Wien's Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML).