Course lesson · Lesson 4
Power
Every AI product rests on data, labour, chips, electricity and language, supplied by people who are mostly invisible to its users. This week traces that supply chain, asks where value is captured and where costs fall, and compares different routes to a fairer share.
What you'll take away
- Trace an AI product backward through its data, labour, compute, energy and language.
- Explain why power in AI tends to concentrate, and what advantages sustain it.
- Describe the hidden labour behind AI systems and who bears its costs.
- Compare community-built, regional and global routes to AI in under-served languages.
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