Poor Technology: Artificial Intelligence and the Experience of Poverty

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has moved in popular discourse from the purview of science-fiction imaginings to the key financial sector of the twenty-first century. As world powers, trillion-dollar companies, and public intellectuals emphasize the importance of AI, the general concerns people raise relate to economic movement, control, bias, and safety.

This book adds a further concern, namely the way our approach to AI reinforces assumptions about dignity and personhood tie...