A new vision of artificial intelligence for the people

The approach has led to remarkable breakthroughs--but to costs as well. Companies have relentlessly mined people for their faces, voices, and behaviors to enrich bottom lines. And models built by averaging data from entire populations have sidelined minority and marginalized communities even as they are disproportionately subjected to the technology. Over the years, a growing chorus of experts have argued that these impacts are repeating the patterns of colonial history. Global AI development, they say, is impoverishing communities and countries that don't have a say in its development--the same communities and countries already impoverished by former colonial empires.