Corporate Accountability and Supply Chains of Minerals: Lessons Learned from the ‘Conflict Minerals.’

Corporate Accountability and Supply Chains of Minerals: Lessons Learned from the ‘Conflict Minerals.’

Artificial intelligence is often presented as an immaterial technology, yet it rests on a very concrete infrastructure: devices, data centers, and networks whose manufacture requires minerals such as tin, gold, cobalt, lithium, and copper. For this reason, reading AI from the perspective of socio-environmental justice means looking toward the territories where its supply chains begin: communities marked by conflict, precarious economies, ecological damage, and violations of human rights.

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