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.

UK’s Keir Starmer: Don’t be scared of AI – POLITICO

Educators spend a lot of time focusing on how to restructure assessments because of ChatGPT but less time thinking about why education as a whole is vulnerable to AI in the first place, and what that prompts us to think about restructuring our systems of teaching and learning.

Reliable AI notetaking about "potentially life-changing choices" is sketchy enough, but a social work AI system that "proposes actions that human workers might not have considered" is a profoundly bad idea ☠️

the Guardian

Social workers in England begin using AI system to assist their work

Magic Notes tool records and analyses face-to-face meetings and suggests follow-up actions

employ more social workers ffs

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?

An anti-fascist approach to AI means decomputing

Event in Wivenhoe, United Kingdom by COVER on Tuesday, October 8 2024

Replace all data centres with common land #PutDownAllMachineryHurtfulToTheCommonality

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Arqueologia en tecnologies audiovisuals. Pedagogia crítica per a intel·ligències artificials. Parasitologia de les imatges

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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]