Anatomical AI System
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Anatomy of an AI System
2018Data analyzed and visualize with large image printing
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Public license under CC BY-NC-SA.
The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources. The research team start with an outline: an exploded view of a planetary system across three stages of birth, life and death, accompanied by an essay in 21 parts. Together, this becomes an anatomical map of a single AI system.
Put simply: each small moment of convenience – be it answering a question, turning on a light, or playing a song – requires a vast planetary network, fueled by the extraction of non-renewable materials, labor, and data.
At this moment in the 21st century, we see a new form of extractivism that is well underway: one that reaches into the furthest corners of the biosphere and the deepest layers of human cognitive and affective being.
More information: https://anatomyof.ai
Authors: Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler
Maps and design: Vladan Joler and Kate Crawford
Published by: SHARE Lab, SHARE Foundation
Factory Algorithmic factory
2016
Data analyzed and visualize with large image printing
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Public license under CC BY-NC-SA.
This is the first story in SHARE Lab’s investigation trilogy titled “Facebook Algorithmic Factory”, created with the intention to map and visualized a complex and invisible exploitation process hidden behind a black box of the World’s largest social network. This map is one of the final results of our investigation, but it can also be used as a guide through our stories, and practically help the reader to remain in the right direction and not to get lost in the complex maze of the “Facebook Algorithmic Factory”. There are many reasons why we should be interested in these black boxes mediating and recording our interaction, our deepest personal communications, our behaviour and activities. Within those invisible walls, in every moment algorithms are deciding which information will appear in our infosphere, how many and which of your friends will see your posts, what kind of content will become part of your reality and what will be censored or deleted. Somewhere deep under the layers of algorithmic machines there can be hidden new forms of potential human rights violation, new forms of exploitation and mechanisms of manipulation on a large scale influencing billions of people each day.
https://labs.rs/en/facebook-algorithmic-factory-immaterial-labour-and-data-harvesting/
Research, text, data collecting and visualization: Vladan Joler
Research, text and proofreading: Andrej Petrovski
Contributors: Kristian Lukic and Jan Krasni
Artist description
SHARE lab, research team based in Yugoslavia, is a newborn child of the share foundation – a research and data investigation lab for exploring different technical aspects of the intersections between technology and society. we are exploring electronic frontier’s highways; hidden. invisible roads and deep waters of information flow in order to better understand the new, emerging forms of privacy-related risks, network neutrality and security threats. SHARE Lab’s first data investigation called “invisible infrastructures”, they are using various network topology, data mining and data visualization methods to create a unique internet privacy and transparency atlas, which is a set of visual representations and methodologies created to map, uncover, visualize and independently monitor different aspects of internet privacy and transparency.
