aceWhat If We Got AI Right? by Eleanor Drage review – avoiding apocalypse
The AI ethicist Eleanor Drage believes that to thrive alongside artificial intelligence, humans need to recognise AI’s “humanity”. She means that while we often speak of AI as though it were some mystical, formless thing, it is the product of hours of human labour, in silicon and quartz mines, microchip factories and data labelling centres. If citizens want to wrest power from the tech companies that are building AI, it helps to understand clearly what they are selling us. This also means seeing through the mark…
AI development depends on low-wage human labor in mines, factories and labelling centres, perpetuates pre-existing biases in recruitment and law enforcement, and is rolling out without public consent or consideration for planetary health while concentrating power in a handful of executives.
The review notes the book's arguments are occasionally rushed and lack nuance, particularly on labor displacement and unconscious bias.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-07-27
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