Are AI Technologies Fueling Modern Colonialism?. Join us on Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 10:00am EDT for a special Twitter Spaces conversation with grantee Karen Hao and reporting partners Heidi Swart, Nadine Freischlad, and Andrea Paola Hernández on their groundbreaking project AI Colonialism, a four-part series on the uneven impacts of AI technologies through the eyes of people experiencing them around the world. Recently published in MIT Technology Review, the series reveals how AI is impoverishing the communities and countries that don’t have a say in its development the same communities and countries already impoverished by former colonial empires. Much of the public discourse examining AI development today has centered on the U.S.: in particular, on how Silicon Valley’s profit motives have driven AI research and its repercussions. This account misses a far more global story. Silicon Valley may still be where most AI algorithms are developed but the data those algorithms are trai
Are AI Technologies Fueling Modern Colonialism?. Join us on Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 10:00am EDT for a special Twitter Spaces conversation with grantee Karen Hao and reporting partners Heidi Swart, Nadine Freischlad, and Andrea Paola Hernández on their groundbreaking project AI Colonialism, a four-part series on the uneven impacts of AI technologies through the eyes of people experiencing them around the world. Recently published in MIT Technology Review, the series reveals how AI is impoverishing the communities and countries that don’t have a say in its development the same communities and countries already impoverished by former colonial empires. Much of the public discourse examining AI development today has centered on the U.S.: in particular, on how Silicon Valley’s profit motives have driven AI research and its repercussions. This account misses a far more global story. Silicon Valley may still be where most AI algorithms are developed but the data those algorithms are trai
How the AI Industry Profits from Catastrophe. This story is part two of MIT Technology Review’s series on AI colonialism, the idea that artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order. It was supported by the MIT Knight Science.
Andrea Paola Hernández. Andrea Paola Hernández is a freelance journalist from Venezuela who covers gender, race, LGBTIQ+, human rights, and their intersection with tech. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The New Humanitarian, and Global Voices.