Ivana Bartoletti - An Artificial Revolution: On Power, Politics and AI (Mood Indigo)

Ivana powerfully exposes the reality of data discrimination and online targeting in society and the danger of AI, as a result, becoming our master not our servant. She also clearly outlines the radical changes to power structures and culture and the embedding of ethics which are necessary in finding the solution.

Tim Clement - Jones , Lib Dem spokesperson for the digital economy in the House of Lords

An essential read. At a time when we are fighting to put our environment at the top of the political agenda, Ivana Bartoletti lucidly demonstrates how another future for our digital environment is possible.

Mete Coban , councillor for Stoke Newington and CEO of My Life, My Say

A powerful wake-up call. The link between AI, data and power can no longer be ignored, and, unless we take action, societys injustices will be written into all of our futures. Tech should benefit everyone and Bartolettis book argues passionately for how it could and should improve our burning planet.

Ayesha Hazarika , broadcaster and journalist

Bartoletti demonstrates the potential for artificial intelligence to encode discrimination of all kinds into algorithmic patterns. Technology can improve our lives, but to harness all its positive potential, she rightly and powerfully insists on public accountability and scrutiny.

David Lammy MP

Bartoletti exhorts us at all times to bring our human intelligence to bear on the potentially dystopian power structures behind AI, writing with clarity, expertise and passion.

Paul Mason , author of PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

An absorbing and thought-provoking analysis of how technology is transforming our life, and a simple message: workers are far more than something for algorithms to hire or fire. AI holds promises and can make our life better but only if we, citizens, workers and trade unions are involved in the conversation.

Frances OGrady , General Secretary of the TUC

You cant enter the 20s without reading this book. It hurls a log into the path of the thunderous express train of technology. Bartoletti cuts through the hype of AI and gets to the nub of the problem: data violence. Its an angry book about the power politics of tech advancement where human rights and personal freedoms are mere collateral damage. Her feminist gaze is sharp on male technocrats using tech tools to manipulate and persuade politically. It is a tale of algorithmic injustice against women, ethnic minorities and people of colour. To say that it is thought-provoking would be an underestimate. I am still reeling from its power.

Noel Sharkey , Emeritus Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the University of Sheffield

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