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The Politics of Digital Technology

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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The Shocking Cost of Capturing Knowledge

I really enjoyed reading your forthcoming piece the steep cost of capture and now you know when I read it I can see it kind of as a reflection of your experiences over the last four or five years. It looks at how heavily AI research is currently captured by large digital technology companies. Their money is just like running the show including on lots of these social ethical you know things we were just talking about so what alternative do you think we should hope forYeah well I think I mean the risk is like the risk of kind of captured knowledge production right but there's also just a kind of laziness to a lot of it that is either intentional or not.

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