AI is a mathematical operation of statistical minimization. If it seems reasonable to us, or if it seems interesting, weird to us, that's us. That does seem to place some pretty strong limits on what we'd trust it to do. But why would you allow it to be an in integral part of our knowledge searching structures and search engines? And why would you let it write your essay? I mean, that sounds like a, I'm not trying not getting at my students here.
Paris Marx is joined by Dan McQuillan to discuss how AI systems encourage ranking populations and austerity policies, and why understanding their politics is essential to opposing them.
Dan McQuillan is a Lecturer in Creative and Social Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He’s also the author of Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence. You can follow Dan on Twitter at @danmcquillan.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
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