If you’ve booked a Covid vaccination online, it’s likely that artificial intelligence helped find you the nearest and soonest appointment. It’s one of many ways AI makes our lives easier.
But it's long been known that AI is also dangerous, from biased algorithms to links between surveillance and the alt right.
So, how can the benefits of machine learning be better balanced against its harms?
In this Big Ideas, AI expert Kate Crawford urges us to look behind the technology - at its environmental footprint, hidden labour and at how a handful of companies dominate global computing.
She’s speaking with Fenella Kernebone from Sydney Ideas – about her new book, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence.
Recorded online by University of Sydney July 6, 2021
Speakers
Kate Crawford - Honorary Professor University of Sydney and Microsoft Researcher
Host: Fenella Kernebone - Sydney Ideas