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Part III: Society and Truth

Some dystopias need neither a rogue machine nor a villain. They arrive through ordinary decisions that add up to a world in which truth is hard to establish and power concentrates, and this part shows that some have already happened and how they can be prevented.

Chapter 10 examines the information ecosystem. Chapter 11 examines automated decision-making that harmed the people it served, in the Netherlands and Australia. Chapters 12 and 13 examine discrimination at scale and surveillance, profiling and censorship. Chapter 14 examines work and the ironies of automation, Chapter 15 inequality and power, Chapter 16 culture and creativity, and Chapter 17 the physical cost of AI.

What you will learn in this part:

• Why one class of AI dystopia has been realised without advanced AI
• Which mechanisms turn automation into injustice, and which controls block them
• What the evidence says about work, inequality, culture and the environment