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Reaction converging ‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Established Compute & infrastructure Analysis 6d ago
⚡ 6 h early
Mamdani AI data centers Our Risk Their Reward

‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Alondra Nelson, Katie Drummond, Neil Turkewitz
“"what you’re seeing from Americans ...is an opposition for what these #datacenters would mean in their day-to-day lives ...It’s also a repudiation of what has been a governing politics for the last few years when it comes to AI, which is: our risk, their re…” evidence ↗
6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Alondra Nelson Jeni Tennison Katie Drummond Tim Carmody Neil Turkewitz Stefanie Hane
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
Reaction converging

Concern & critique

3 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"what you’re seeing from Americans ...is an opposition for what these #datacenters would mean in their day-to-day lives ...It’s also a repudiation of what has been a governing politics for the last few years when it comes to AI, which is: our risk, their re…”

Primary source wired.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 5d ago
⚡ 3 h early

Prisons Using AI to Predict When Incarcerated People Will Commit Future Crimes

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Hypervisible
““Recidiviz began as a data organization project at Google, meant to ‘uncover how technology could standardize criminal justice data and improve the system nationwide.’”” evidence ↗
3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Alondra Nelson Hypervisible Hagen Blix

““Recidiviz began as a data organization project at Google, meant to ‘uncover how technology could standardize criminal justice data and improve the system nationwide.’””

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Hypervisible : “Recidiviz began as a data organization project at Google, meant to ‘uncover how technology could standardize criminal justice data and improve the system nationwide.’”
Alondra Nelson: “Recidiviz began as a data organization project at Google, meant to ‘uncover how technology could standardize criminal justice data and improve the system nationwide.’”
Jed Brown: Recidiviz is deployed in many states despite a dearth of independent audits. Audits of similar systems like COMPAS and this one in Ontario (used for exactly the purpose Michigan is deploying Recidi…
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Primary source futurism.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 15d ago

Ai bubble financial crisis lehman

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Alondra Nelson
“Nice one from Jen Harris. "the US economy is fully hostage to an AI build-out laden with increasingly worrying financial engineering, all riding on a wager" between hoped-for increases in AI demand, potential customers, and industry infrastructure investmen…” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Alondra Nelson Damien Williams

“Nice one from Jen Harris. "the US economy is fully hostage to an AI build-out laden with increasingly worrying financial engineering, all riding on a wager" between hoped-for increases in AI demand, potential customers, and industry infrastructure investmen…”

Primary source nytimes.com ↗