Amazon

And I think when you're hearing people being critical of algorithms, what they mean are highly optimized engines designed to extract value from you, whether that's your labor, because you're working in an Amazon warehouse and it's trying to optimize every micro movement of your body, or trying to optimize the amount of attention that you pay to something.

Trevor Paglen, Strange Rules: Protocol Art at the Venice Biennale

Sometimes the energy that the company can bring, they can present as more like a family or a benevolent dictatorship and not just as a purely exploitative force, like Amazon.

Lawrence Lek, Lawrence Lek on AI Reinventing Place