Artificial Intelligence is not neutral: there are cases where software used in justice systems have been racially biased. We need a massive democratisation of technologies.
In New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future leading artist and writer James Bridle surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems, and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime.
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future is out now in paperback
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2698-new-dark-age
“Like an Orwell of the computer age.” – Kirkus
James Bridle is a literary editor, technologist, writer, journalist, and visual artist. He writes for Guardian, Observer, Wired, Frieze, Atlantic, and many other publications.