Who Owns Intelligence

AI, Data, and the Global South's Fight for a Fairer Future
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-41263-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Who Owns Intelligence provides an evocative insight into the practices the AI industry deploys to create and extract value from the Global South while retaining much of the resulting economic and technological value elsewhere. It proposes working alternatives with pragmatic solutions for parity of efficacy and parity of conditions to address deep-rooted harms.

The book features detailed composite case studies from Kenya, Nigeria, India, and the Philippines, following people whose data, labor, and professional expertise help make AI solutions and products possible, but whose contributions, returns, and even existence are little known outside of academic and journalism research circles. These include a Lagos oncologist whose hospital's AI diagnostic platform was never validated on local patients, a Kenyan farmer whose farm’s data enabled an intelligent harvest prediction model, a Manila content moderator whose labor contributed to a major platform's public claims about AI safety, and a Nigerian patient whose medical records funded international research. The exploration of each experience draws on documented reporting, litigation, and regulatory records, and unearths the same extraction pattern. The book poses key policy questions and seeks answers from the global AI industry, governments, and regulators, demanding they bridge the gap and reduce inequalities through data transparency, population-specific validation, benefit-sharing, and supply-chain accountability, among other measures.

Who Owns Intelligence is for practitioners, policymakers, and regulators shaping AI governance frameworks, as well as scholars and students with interest in the growth of AI and its outsized impact. The book assumes little to no technical expertise and explains AI extraction in simple language to engage readers of all backgrounds.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whig, Rattan N.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Wirtschaftliche Globalisierung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Wissensbasierte Systeme, Expertensysteme
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Spracherkennung, Sprachverarbeitung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: How the Rules Were Rigged: A Blueprint for Engineering Exploitation 1. The Myth of the Garage 2. The Original Sin of Scale: How the Machine Works 3. The Compute Monopoly 4. Who the Money Follows: The AI Hype and the Concentration Engine  Part 2: The Arithmetic of Annihilation: Strategic Drain 5. The Diagnostic Gap: What the Benchmarks Don’t Measure 6. The Field That Fed the Algorithm 7. Ghost Workers 8. The Patient Record 9. The Score Part 3: Forged Under Constraints: Weapons of Accountability 10. The Proof of Concept 11. Show Your Data 12. Build for Whose Body It Touches 13. Pay for What You Took 14. Accountability Through the Chain 15. Health Data Sovereignty in Practice Part 4: The Final Ledger: Paradigm’s Bill  16. The Blueprint and the Five-Year Window

Über Autor(innen)

Rattan N. Whig is a technology professional with extensive experience across a wide spectrum of job roles and industry solutions. Rattan lives in New Jersey with his family. Alongside volunteering with various organizations and running a small hobby-farm, he writes about the social and economic inequities that are only growing deeper and wider with proliferating commoditization of AI technologies.