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An AI service depends on material and human systems that a user-facing interface can conceal.
Try the short introduction first, or bring equivalent reading experience. Obtain the specified text before beginning the longer reading.
Map a fictional voice assistant’s data, labour and material dependencies, marking which claims need outside evidence.
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Introduces the question and vocabulary used in the longer selected reading.
Kate Crawford · book
Introduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.
Library or purchase
Find a copyAtlas of AI. Research on AI’s material, labour and political conditions. Trace a system beyond its interface to extraction, human work and data infrastructures.
Answer this question in your own words: Which costs disappear when AI is described only as software?
Name the claim, then explain why a reader might accept it.
An AI service depends on material and human systems that a user-facing interface can conceal.
What to look for
Common mistake: Summarising a biography instead of explaining the argument.
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Kate Crawford · book
Locate two passages about “Which costs disappear when AI is described only as software” using the contents or index. Record their chapter/section names in your notes; this route assigns selections, not the whole work.
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Find a copyAtlas of AI. Research on AI’s material, labour and political conditions. Trace a system beyond its interface to extraction, human work and data infrastructures.
What would make your activity a convincing example?
Map a fictional voice assistant’s data, labour and material dependencies, marking which claims need outside evidence.
A useful response carries out the task: Map a fictional voice assistant’s data, labour and material dependencies, marking which claims need outside evidence. It records the observation or passage used and explains how it bears on the question.
What to look for
Common mistake: Presenting an opinion without showing the example it rests on.
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What is one conclusion this reading does not establish?
Test the boundary: A supply-chain map explains dependencies; it is not a measurement of every system’s exact impact.
A supply-chain map explains dependencies; it is not a measurement of every system’s exact impact.
What to look for
Common mistake: Treating a useful interpretation as an unrestricted fact.
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Background, different viewpoints, and further reading.
Research on AI’s material, labour and political conditions. Trace a system beyond its interface to extraction, human work and data infrastructures.
Introduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.