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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2024
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Dan McQuillan has been warning about this since forever, to the point where I would've assumed that he'd be referenced if not interviewed int his article, though he wasn't. Here's a pretty short one from him. His basic argument is that AI is best understood as algorithmic Thatcherism, in which they'll silicon-wash the same austerity politics that neoliberalism has been feeding us forever.
AI is being used as a means of diverting blame from humans onto a black box. It's not inherently bad of itself, but the current hype around it is allowing it to be used in ways it shouldn't be.
Somehow I missed this piece, thanks for sharing — as someone whose family used to be miners, I'll never pass up an opportunity to bitch about Thatcher