AI is a planetary extractive industry, not a disembodied intelligence

Evidence

Crawford reframes AI as a planetary extractive industry, tracing lithium mining, data labor, classification systems, and military applications. The book insists AI is “neither artificial nor intelligent” but rather material, embodied, and political. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 2591

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the extractive framing of data colonialism (2577) and Sadowski’s data capitalism (2589). — connects to: AI infrastructure has significant environmental consequences. — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 436; AI adoption is reducing the need for entry-level workers. — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 858

Related

• AI infrastructure has significant environmental consequences. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• AI infrastructure has significant environmental consequences. #expands (0.80) — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 436
• AI adoption is reducing the need for entry-level workers. #complicates (0.40) — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 858