Anatomy of an AI system

Door: Vladan Joler.

“Our exploded view diagram combines and visualizes three central, extractive processes that are required to run a large-scale artificial intelligence system: material resources, human labor, and data. 

We consider these three elements across time – represented as a visual description of the birth, life and death of a single Amazon Echo unit.

It’s necessary to move beyond a simple analysis of the relationship between an individual human, their data, and any single technology company in order to contend with the truly planetary scale of extraction.”

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