I wrote 'Resisting AI' (subtitled 'An Anti-fascist approach to Artificial Intelligence') to help preempt the kind of convergence of far right politics and the tech sector that we are waking up to today. The struggle against fascistic solutionism continues. https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai
Unlike actual clouds, which transport life-giving moisture from the seas to the land, the AI cloud sucks up scarce water resources. It shouldn't be called 'The Cloud' it should be called 'The Drought', and we should say "that large language model runs in The Drought" 🏜️
Prediction: the UK government will push AI into public services, the services will get even shoddier, everyone will blame the immigrants. Meanwhile data centres will ingest entire electricity grids while AI fails to save us from climate change.
