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Artificial intelligence reinforces power and privilege
Computational surveillance empowers governments and corporations and diminishes accountability.
What do a Yemeni refugee in the queue for food aid, a checkout worker in a British supermarket and a depressed university student have in common?
- Cori Crider
- Al Jazeera
They’re all being sifted by some form of artificial intelligence.
Advanced nations and the world’s biggest companies have thrown billions of dollars behind AI – a set of computing practices, including machine learning that collate masses of our data, analyse it, and use it to predict what we would do.
Yet cycles of hype and…