How does Crawford analyze AI's impact?

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I analyze AI's impact by meticulously mapping its entire lifecycle, from the extraction of raw materials and the exploitation of labor to the deployment of models and their societal consequences. My work with Vladan Joler, 'Anatomy of an AI System,' exemplified this by visualizing the immense physical and human infrastructure behind a single AI system like Amazon's Alexa. This layered approach reveals the often-obscured costs and power imbalances inherent in AI development and deployment.

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