Neither artificial nor intelligent ? a critical analysis of the AI industry We tend to think of artificial intelligence as a wondrous and disembodied form of machine cleverness. From the award-winning scientist Kate Crawford, on the other hand, we learn that AI is in fact neither artificial nor intelligent, but in its material reality amounts to resource exploitation and concentration of power. Crawford takes us on a fascinating journey to lithium mines and click factories, to automated workplaces and vast data archives, to AI training camps, and to the Pentagon's algorithmic warfare team. In this way, it draws an atlas of artificial intelligence that maps the different areas of its concrete reality to train our critical eye. Drawing on a decade of original research, Crawford shows that AI is first and foremost a technology of extraction ? the skimming of minerals, cheap labor and an immeasurable amount of data. The planetary network of AI is massively damaging our environment, deepening social inequalities and threatening democratic principles. Crawford's book provides us with an urgent account of what is at stake when large corporations and government institutions use AI to reshape the world. "Kate Crawford shows where AI benefits from exploitation ? and endangers democracies in the process. Non-fiction best list from the literary WELT, NZZ, RBB Kultur and Radio Österreich 1 Biography (Frank Lachmann) Frank Lachmann, born in 1975, is a freelance author, copywriter, record collector and nightlife theorist. He lives in Berlin, worked for SPEX Online and the radio station Motor FM. New product