This paper offers a journey through mines, semiconductor manufacturers, data centres, technological firms, data labelling factories and e-waste dumps by illustrating the complex, diverse, opaque and global structure of the supply chain of AI. Then, the paper moves into illuminating a case study drawn from three months of fieldwork on data centres in Mexico, revealing that algorithmic harms go beyond code pitfalls.
Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at @oiioxford | Critical AI Studies | Radical ecology, politics & migration | Interested in #AlgorithmicGovernance, #TechResistance and #LifecycleAI | 🚲📖🌻