AI’s Missing Others - Boston Review

Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today. Image: Getty Images Those excluded from Silicon Valley point the way forward. Sarah Myers West Amba Kak In our moment of profound inequality and global crisis, now flush with chatbots and simulated images, Morozov is right that we sorely need a clearer articulation of the world we do want to live in, not just the one we want to leave behind. But the challenge of specifying that vision—much less winning it—requires more refined lessons about the challenges ahead and where political power might be built to overcome them. The field of AI has been not just co-opted but constituted by a few dominant tech firms. It is no coincidence that the dominant “bigger is better” paradigm, which generally uses the scale of compute and data resources as a proxy for performance, lines up neatly with the incentives of a handful of companies in Silicon Valley that disproportionately control these resource

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