I'm at the Centre for Commons Organising tomorrow, asking: Will AI fix public services? If I'm an educator but I don't embrace AI, am I a Luddite? Did Francis Galton invent deep learning? Will AI save us from climate change? Does decomputing mean I have to get rid of my laptop? image
Replace all data centres with common land #PutDownAllMachineryHurtfulToTheCommonality
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Any educator who embraces AI on the basis that students will need to engage with AI in the world of work has missed the point that AI is a fundamentally anti-worker technology which will immiserate students' prospects of getting work and their experience in workplace itself.
AI* does more for the far right than boost disinformation; it sediments it structurally and institutionally through - algorithmic states of exception - eugenic solutionism - bureaucratic cruelty - diverting from structural solutions [*all current AI, not just the generative kind]