report
2023 Landscape: Confronting Tech Power
AI Now Institute · published 2023-04-11
Open the sourceai-now-2023-landscape · last checked 2026-10-09 · voice: civil society · origin: global north
Civil-society voice. An advocacy report with an explicit position on concentration in the technology sector.
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Source assertion· confidence high· passage checked
Because only a few firms run their own cloud and compute at scale, much of the wider AI ecosystem depends structurally on them.
Used in: Compute, Concentration of power
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Where schools, clinics, community groups and small businesses adopt AI, governance is real but bounded: they can set how a tool is used, but usually cannot evaluate it independently or change how it was built, so their choices depend on decisions made by vendors and higher levels.