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.
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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.
Automatised metapolitics, coming soon to a uni near you.
'Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender' 

The Texas Tribune
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concer...
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)
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The Verge
Amazon Prime Video pulls AI-powered recaps after Fallout flub
Fallout from Fallout.

NHS England » Federated Data Platform Check and Challenge Group – minutes and action notes: 19 September 2025
NHS England » Federated Data Platform Check and Challenge Group – minutes and action notes: 19 September 2025