Atlas of AI
By Kate Crawford
Yale University Press
I’ve been reading this book for a course I’m designing, and it’s truly fascinating. We hear about AI on the news—mostly about issues with language models having positive or negative effects on society, the financial aspects, and the environmental costs. Crawford, a professor at USC and principal researcher at Microsoft goes much deeper to talk about the overall human costs and where things both go wrong and go right. It is somewhat academic, but she uses good storytelling examples to help the reader understand the questions we all should be asking about our machine-based future.