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Fake AI
►https://meatspacepress.com

The book contains seventeen chapters charting the contemporary twists and turns of AI hype, pseudoscience and snake oil. Covering case studies ranging from automated content moderation to smart toothbrushes, and facial recognition to FinTech, the discussion draws on a diverse array of perspectives to build a picture of the banalities, particularities, benefits, and dangers of AI systems. Its contributing authors hail from a variety of backgrounds, including computer science, sociology, policy and governance, journalism, law, and more.

The book is available to buy in print and ebook formats from the Meatspace Press shop. Like all Meatspace Press publications, it is also open access and freely available to download in pdf format.

Contributors (alphabetically): Razvan Amironesei, Aparna Ashok, Abeba Birhane, Crofton Black, Favour Borokini, Corinne Cath, Emily Denton, Serena Dokuaa Oduro, Alex Hanna, Adam Harvey, Fieke Jansen, Frederike Kaltheuner, Gemma Milne, Arvind Narayanan, Hilary Nicole, Ridwan Oloyede, Tulsi Parida, Aidan Peppin, Deborah Raji, Alexander Reben, Andrew Smart, Andrew Strait, James Vincent.

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Google Fiber in Kansas City : there is no such thing as free infrastructure, by Tooran Alizadeh, Edward Helderop, Tony Grubesic
▻https://visionscarto.net/google-fiber-kansas-city

The pre-registration system adopted by Google proved to be a recipe for disaster; and drew strong criticism. The process manifested a sharp visualization of socio-demographic disparities and the digital divide in Kansas City: affluent white neighbourhoods easily met pre-registration targets, but lower-income, predominantly black and Hispanic neighbourhoods did not. In other words, the pre-registration process displayed how naive Google was about the implications of the deep socio-economic inequalities and pre-existing digital divide in Kansas City.

Nous republions cet article de recherche sur le déploiement de la "fibre google" à Kansas City, extrait du livre “How to run a city like Amazon” ►https://meatspacepress.com

L’affaire de la fibre, nous disent les chercheur·es, a failli tourner à la catastrophe : Kansas City est une ville fortement ségréguée et, si les quartiers les plus riches et blancs n’avaient aucune difficulté à remplir les critères d’éligibilité, les quartiers pauvres, noirs et hispaniques se retrouvaient de fait défavorisés par le processus. Après une forte mobilisation civique, Google a revu sa copie et est parvenue à limiter cette #discrimination.

Il n’en reste pas moins que la ville a dû assumer énormément de coûts (de personnel, d’organisation), pour soutenir cette expérience grandeur nature d’#infrastructure #internet publique appartenant au privé. À contraster si l’on veut avec l’expérience de la r00thouse à La Paz ►https://visionscarto.net/hackers-de-bolivie