Explores the destructive, planetary impacts of AI technologies: the companies behind generative AI (and other kinds of software powered by machine learning) turn the Internet wilds into anonymized content for a proprietary training model. After tracing how machine learning models are inseparable from practices of extraction, classification, Crawford ends with a powerful comparison of AI hype and the space colonization hype of Bezos, Musk, et al. Both are rooted in the idea that every commons, from the digital commons of the Internet to the final commons of outer space, “can be taken by whichever empire gets there first.”