danmcquillan

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.

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

The Verge

Amazon Prime Video pulls AI-powered recaps after Fallout flub

Fallout from Fallout.

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)

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

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I wonder if the European Commission's insistence on calling data centres 'AI factories' is a deliberate attempt to encourage Luddism and machine breaking? 🔨 (Think of the alternative social benefits that could be delivered with €2.6 billion...).

In conversation with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia of The Philosopher journal as part of their 'AI and the Digital' series, covering reform, resistance, fascist resonances, (dis)passionate applications, system contamination and path dependency.

If you think generative AI should be integrated into the classroom then you also think management consultancies should determine the future for higher education. Both are ethics-free forms of machinic optimisation based on reductive abstractions that strip out important context and relationships.

'Health minister says UK should cash in on NHS patient data - Zubir Ahmed says new central service for medical datasets should be leveraged for ‘benefit of Treasury coffers''

Client Challenge

- the State emulating social media's surveillance-to-monetisation pipeline.

My speaker notes & slides from today's panel on 'Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education', co-organised with the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU). The full recording, slides and resources will be available soon via the CJUU site.

Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education

Getting p-r-e-t-t-y tired of all the 'anthropologists' and 'critical designers' who are hopping on a human-centred-AI funding train while acting as the participation-washing front end for violent epistemologies