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danmcquillan
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Author of 'Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence' https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai Researching technopolitics. blog: http://danmcquillan.org/ book: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai
While AI narratives present it as heralding some kind of endpoint, whether superintelligence or a more transcendent Singularity, it's more accurate to interpret it as a technology of interregnum; one that both reflects & amplifies destabilisation and authoritarian restructuring.
All the noise about alignment from the advocates of 'AI Safety' is completely specious because AI already aligns with the hierarchical dualisms that shape our society at the deepest levels, especially misogyny, racism and a contempt for nature.
Amazon Prime pulls AI-powered recaps after errors but the NHS continues to pilot an AI discharge summary tool based on Palantir's system (referred to in these minutes as the FDP - Federated Data Platform) 😷💻☠️