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I've actually gone to all of the places where artificial intelligence is generated.

What was really clear to me is that it's certainly not artificial.

AI is made of people, it's made of minerals, it's made of salt and coal, and so in that sense,

it's really the opposite of artificial.

It's profoundly material.

But at the same time, we think of it as intelligent as though somehow we're creating these brains

that live in sort of disembodied space, but it's not human intelligence or even really

light human intelligence.

So in many ways, I think this term, artificial intelligence has become a bit of a cognitive

trap where we tend to assume that these systems are somehow smarter than they are and also

less impactful on the planet.

That's Kate Crawford.

She's the author of the book, Adelaide of AI, Power, Politics, and the planetary costs of

artificial intelligence.

AI, machine intelligence, deep learning, all these are technologies that I've been fascinated

with for years now, fascinated with both their ability to help us understand the world

and nervous about their inability to understand us humans.

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