What Happens When The Machine Has Never Heard of You?

Eddy Smith's essay on AI and St. Vincent hits close to home, literally. As someone born there, with family roots in Bequia, who works in cybersecurity and has spent two decades arguing for the open web, I recognise every word of it.

https://islandinthenet.com/what-happens-when-the-machine-has-never-heard-of-you/

King David Golf Club, Cape Town. Green so cultivated it looks computer-rendered. Underneath: a city whose Day Zero water crisis four years ago made every front page on earth, a grid that still rolls blackouts. Equinix wants 160 megawatts here — two data centers, power equivalent for 130,000 South African households. The application discloses no substantive detail on water use, emissions, diesel capacity, or even the buildings themselves. Foxglove and the Housing Assembly filed formal objection this week. Rosa Curling: "There is simply not enough information for a decision on a project of this scale." The land remembers what the contracts forget. So does the well running dry under the green.
https://twp.ai/4hqTwr
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ANTI-HARARI: The Anatomy of a ...

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In the thirteenth century, Aquinas wrote that story; he sanctified the ownership of land and the serf’s body by the lord as “divine order.” In the twenty‑first century, Yuval Noah Harari takes on the same task. Only this time, God gives way to Data, and divine order to the Algorithm.
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The unfortunate truth is, that the vast majority of African data already flows through US and Chinese companies. AI isn't changing that. However, the bright side is, that African governments have understood, that they can change it through open-source and digital sovereignty.
#digitalsovereignty #digitalcolonialism #opensource
https://streamlinefeed.co.ke/news/un-experts-warn-ai-accelerates-digital-colonisation-in-africa