The Algorithm Trap: Remaining Human in a World of Artificial Intelligence

In Kibera, Ian Koli draws invisible boxes around pedestrians for $2 an hour, training Tesla's self-driving cars frame by frame. In Nairobi, Daniel Motaung watches beheadings to clean your Facebook feed. In Amsterdam, a fourteen-year-old becomes the criminal an algorithm predicted. This book exposes AI's founding lie: the intelligence isn't artificial, it's outsourced. From Joy Buolamwini's facial recognition audits to Maya Wang's reverse-engineering of China's IJOP surveillance platform, the evidence is written on the bodies of the invisible.

You'll learn:

- Why 96 percent of deepfakes target women

- How Amsterdam's Top600 list creates the criminals it predicts

- What Ted Chiang means by "a blurry JPEG of the web"