Tech Futures: The Fossil Fuels Playbook for Big Tech: Part I

📌 Editor’s Note: This article is part of our Tech Futures series, a collaboration between the Montreal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI) and the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN). In this special instalment of Tech Futures by RAIN, we consider two ways in which the Big Tech industry draws on the playbook of the fossil fuels industry. Oil was the driving force of economic growth in the 20th century. Now, it’s AI. That’s the story motivating many large-scale investments into AI...