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"Defining AI" (ali-alkhatib.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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"I think we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power. Projects that claim to “democratize” AI routinely conflate “democratization” with “commodification”. Even open-source AI projects often borrow from libertarian ideologies to help manufacture little fiefdoms."

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[–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It was invented by fleshy humans to sell even bigger phones to people with the same hand size. It doesn't make it biological because "fleshy", at best it's economical and anatomical.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Economics: the famously apolitical field that examines the distribution and creation of wealth, also a famously apolitical concept.

    Ironically this whole exchange is an example of just how cooked American political discourse is. The culture war is so all-consuming that anything outside of that gets largely excised from political action entirely. Then when someone from outside the US tries to point out that basically unrestricted corporate looting and blatant violations of various human rights could be regulated or otherwise countered by political processes, people act like they're speaking Martian.

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