Sono d’accordo sulle premesse sull’imperialismo e sul capitalismo digitale. Non capisco molto invece altre affermazioni e le conclusioni. Non mi pare il caso di assimilare l’attività di annotazione di dati degli africani ad altre pratiche dannose come l’esportazione di pesticidi: "The exploitation of cognitive labor is characteristic of informational capitalism but derives from, and is co-extensive with, industrial capitalism’s systems for labor exploitation…. Consider product liability laws in the United States, which emerged from mass torts or from regulators: products like banned pesticides that cannot be sold or used in the United States are exported to other markets… Informational capitalism is currently governed by a similarly permissive legal order—if the United States and EU regulate to protect their populations, harmful AI products will continue to be developed and inflicted on the people of other states.” Quali siano questi cosiddetti “harmful AI products” non mi è chiaro. La digitalizzazione offre invece delle opportunità ai paesi emergenti: un recente incontro di ISOC Society sul tema A Billion More People will Transform the the Internet” (https://youtu.be/_Cog9HRBZlY), illustrava gli esempi di nuovi lavori che vengono svolti in Nigeria, da persone con buone competenze informatiche, che lavorano per aziende occidentali. L’esperienza porta costoro a imparare come impiantare nuove aziende locali, con diversi esempi di giovani che costruiscono servizi di connettività locale e di una start-up che offre la gestione dele cartelle sanitarie ad ospedali che curano oltre 300 mila pazienti. Poi si aggiungono critiche su dati obsoleti, che è una questione a sua volta obsoleta. Conclusioni: To avoid future problems, the discourse about AI regulation needs to expand its currently myopic view of risk and who is at risk to cover the labor harms as well as data and algorithmic injustices that will certainly result from global AI systems. Mah, “certainly result” mi pare un’affermazione eccessiva. Nessuno sa come sarà il futuro. — Beppe
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*Transnational AI and Corporate Imperialism*
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/Chinmayi Arun/
*Introduction*
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When I first had coffee with Facebook’s head of public policy in India, she was using a shared workspace. Before joining Facebook, she had led the policy practice of one of India’s most powerful law firms and was on friendly terms with judges, ministers, and other influential people. It was surprising to find her in a small office in a shared workspace, with just one administrative assistant for support. In a couple of years, she moved to a suite with a beautiful view in one of Delhi’s finest luxury hotels, acquired an expanding team of seasoned lawyers and policy professionals. Within five years, the public policy team had grown to be so large that it had its own plush office in the heart of Delhi. This expansion of influence within Delhi mirrored the expansion of Meta’s (previously Facebook) influence in India. If it was difficult to be in an Indian city without relying heavily on Big Tech’s products, it was impossible to work on technology policy in Delhi without being swept into currents of change created by Big Tech.^1
People across the world are grappling with a few global technology companies ’ domination of their public spheres and increasingly of other spheres of social, economic, and political engagement. In her essay on the “algorithmic colonization of Africa,” Abeba Birhane pointed out that most of Africa’s digital infrastructure is owned and controlled by major Western technology companies, and she further questioned how relevant artificial intelligence (AI) tools from the West are in other contexts.^2
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