Atlas of AI, by Kate Crawford

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (2021)

Reframes AI as an extractive industry: mining people, labor, water, and increasing carbon emissions. Those costs are, of course, not shared equally. It is also the book that connects Act II to Act III most directly, because the material substrate of AI turns out to be exactly where the chokepoints are.

Read it asking: If you drew the supply chain of a single model on a map, how many of its border crossings are now a matter of national security?