#AmReading Empire of #AI by #KarenHao. There's a chapter on environmental costs. Another on the exploitation of Global South folks.

And this quote from MIT economists & Nobel laureates Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson: "Technologies are not inevitable. The ability to advance them is driven by a collective belief that they are worth advancing. The irony is that for this very reason, new technologies rarely default to bringing widespread prosperity . . . Those who successfully rally for a technology's creation are those who have the power & resources to do the rallying. As they turn their ideas into reality, the vision they impose -- of what the tech is & whom it can benefit -- is thus the vision of a narrow elite, imbued with all their blind spots & self-serving philosophies. Only through cataclysmic shifts in society or powerful organized resistance can a technology transform from enriching the few to lifting the many."