The Dig AI Hype Machine w/ Meredith Whittaker, Ed Ongweso, and Sarah West
02:22:42
AI Rebranding
- Tech companies rebranded data-dependent approaches like machine learning as AI.
- This rebranding mystifies the mundane nature of the technology and inflates its perceived value.
AI's Inflated Connotations
- The term "AI" carries inflated connotations of progress, securitization, and inevitability.
- This obscures the underlying infrastructure, business models, and potential harms.
Controlling the Narrative
- Corporations control the AI narrative, presenting it as intelligent and inevitable.
- This limits critical discussion about its true nature and potential negative impacts.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
The Rise of AI
02:30 • 4min
The Dig: How Patreon Helps Make It Possible
06:04 • 1min
The History of Artificial Intelligence
07:21 • 3min
The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence
10:24 • 4min
The Slippage of Artificial Intelligence
14:17 • 2min
The Victory of Artificial Intelligence
16:06 • 2min
The Illusion of Agents and Artificial Intelligence
17:45 • 1min
The Profit-Driven Development of Intelligence
19:11 • 2min
The So-Called Intelligence of AI
20:48 • 5min
The Importance of Breaking Up the Two Parts of Artificial Intelligence
26:14 • 2min
The Worst Part of the Applications of Computer Science
27:56 • 2min
The Toxic Dynamic of Artificial Intelligence
30:25 • 2min
AI Is the Future
32:01 • 2min
The Risks Humanity Faces
33:33 • 2min
The Threat of Artificial Intelligence
35:05 • 4min
The Problem With Open AI
39:30 • 2min
The Rise of Corporate Lobbying Around the AI Act
41:47 • 3min
The Metaverse and AI
44:38 • 4min
Facebook's Antitrust Scrutiny
48:23 • 2min
Facebook's Failure to Command the Imagination of People
50:21 • 1min
The Hype Cycle in the Come Valley
51:50 • 2min
The Future of Cryptocurrency
53:54 • 1min
The Importance of Secondary Use Cases in AI
55:19 • 4min
The Age of AI and Our Future
59:08 • 2min
The Role of AI in the US Military Industrial Complex
01:01:27 • 3min
The Mysticism Around AI
01:04:56 • 4min
The Reinvigoration of Industrial Policy Framings
01:09:05 • 2min
The Surveillance Capitalism Essay
01:10:36 • 2min
The Importance of Industrial Warfare
01:12:14 • 2min
The Surveillance Capitalist Argument
01:14:06 • 2min
The Importance of Artificial Intelligence
01:15:39 • 2min
The Dig: The Socialism Conference
01:17:14 • 2min
The DUMOR-esque X-Risk Structure of Big Tech
01:18:59 • 4min
The Long History of Surveillance Capitalism
01:23:15 • 2min
The Importance of Thinking About Things in the Laboratory
01:25:23 • 2min
The Failure of the Discourse to Gain and Look With Clear Eyes at the Digital Economy
01:27:00 • 2min
The Fear of Taking Control of Our Infrastructure
01:28:51 • 1min
The Singularity of AI
01:30:11 • 1min
The Singularity and the Evolution of Computer Science
01:31:39 • 2min
The Resurrection of Humanism
01:33:10 • 2min
The Singularity of Utilitarian Logic
01:34:42 • 3min
How to Reverse Engineer a History That Makes You Deserving of What You Got
01:37:54 • 3min
The Persistence of Control in Tech History
01:40:32 • 2min
The Impact of Mining on the American Economy
01:42:30 • 2min
The Agenics of Productivity
01:44:16 • 2min
The Importance of Amicable Decisions
01:45:55 • 2min
The Hype Around Automation Will Never Come
01:47:38 • 5min
The Inconvenience of Automated Work
01:52:58 • 2min
The Rise of Automated Workplaces
01:54:35 • 2min
The Predictability of Streaming Profits
01:56:16 • 1min
The Importance of Preserving Space for Building Worker Power
01:57:43 • 4min
The Importance of Privacy in AI
02:01:42 • 2min
The Nature of Labor Organization
02:03:17 • 3min
The Unheralded Workforce
02:05:53 • 2min
The Separation of Labor in the Chinese Industry
02:08:22 • 2min
The Power of Data and the Intelligence of Workers
02:10:01 • 2min
The Inevitable, What Is to Be Done Question?
02:11:39 • 3min
The Politics of AI
02:15:07 • 2min
The Immediacy of AI and the Creative Process
02:17:11 • 2min
The Politics of Automated Systems
02:18:49 • 2min
The Dig From Jacobin Magazine
02:20:24 • 2min
Featuring Meredith Whittaker, Edward Ongweso Jr., and Sarah Myers West on the mundane dystopia concealed beneath the AI hype machine.
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