Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power.

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We need to acknowledge both the politics and the physical impact that AI has on the planet, says scholar Kate Crawford in her new book.

Vladan Joler At the turn of the 20th century, a German horse took Europe by storm. Clever Hans, as he was known, could seemingly perform all sorts of tricks previously limited to humans. He could add and subtract numbers, tell time and read a calendar, even spell out words and sentences—all by stamping out the answer with a hoof. “A” was one tap; “B” was two; 2+3 was five. He was an international sensation—and proof, many believed, that animals could be taught to reason as well as humans. The problem was Clever Hans wasn’t really doing any of these things. As investigators later discovered, th

Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power.

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