“Anatomy of an AI system” is a visual essay co-authored by Vladan Joler and Kate Crawford, director of the AI Now Institute at New York University. Taking the home assistant Amazon Echo as a case study of black box technology, step by step, it reconstructs its design and the relations of each component with planetary ecology and economy. The presentation will uncover the invisible matrix of human labour, energy consumption and resource extraction that is hidden behind digital networks and artificial intelligence.