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

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.

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These are systems that produce profound and lasting geomorphic changes to our planet, as well as increase the forms of labor inequality that we already have in the world.

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