Artificial intelligence reinforces power and privilege AI

What do a Yemeni refugee in the queue for food aid, a checkout worker in a British supermarket and a depressed university student have in common? They're all being sifted by some form of artificial intelligence. Advanced nations and the world's biggest companies have thrown billions of dollars behind AI - a set of computing practices, including machine learning that collate masses of our data, analyse it, and use it to predict what we would do. Yet cycles of hype and despair are inseparable from the history of AI. Is that clunky robot really about to take my job?