Extractive Industries
AI has intensive resource demands from extractive industries like mining, oil and gas. This has globalized ecocidal, racist, and socioeconomic impacts. Extractive industries disproportionately continue to burden the Global South through predatory policies and structures of international finance/debt and globalized capitalism.
It also has extensive demands on water.
Read more:
- Making AI Less “Thirsty”: Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Model
- Atlas of AI
- Ethical and social risks of harm from Language Models
- ‘The hole in the ground that cannot be moved’: Political risk as a racial vernacular of extractive industry development
- An Andean avatar: post-neoliberal and neoliberal strategies for securing the unobtainable
- Extractive Violence on Indigenous Country: sami and Aboriginal Views on Conflicts and Power Relations with Extractive Industries
- What is environmental racism for? Place-based harm and relational development
- MiningWatch Canada
- Earthworks
Impacts
- Environment
- Economy
