@phredd argh, no 🤦🏼‍♂️

Interesting stuff. "The new Foundation 'Expectation Fail' has just started their first call for projects against Tech Fascism. 10 "scores against tech fascism" can get 1500-7000 EUR each to work on this sadly very current topic". Details here: https://lnkd.in/eRmx58vK

@timnitGebru 😂 yes I didn't sharpen my arguments in the hope of persuading Anthropic but in the hope of provoking some critical responses from the students ...

@timnitGebru
- Why can't AI actually replace workers?
- Why won't AI save healthcare or education?
- Why is AI bad at productive things but good at destructive things?

FYI I had the chance to debate with Anthropic reps a couple of weeks ago and created this set of "Questions for Anthropic (or any other LLM-pusher)" https://danmcquillan.org/questions_for_anthropic.html

Abstract for my seminar at the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought (CPCT) on Wed 11th June. "Drawing on Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality', this talk will argue that an important role for the contemporary university is to resist AI..." https://danmcquillan.org/cpct_abstract.html

@adamgreenfield As an ex-physicist, it also reminded me of some of the lightbulb moments that I got from reading Isabelle Stengers.

@adamgreenfield Cara New Dagget's 'The Birth of Energy - Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work' is well worth a read https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-birth-of-energy. I'm still digesting it, but its argument that 'energy' itself is a historical and political concept seems like a vital point to keep in mind.

Abstract for my seminar at the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought (CPCT) on Wed 11th June. "Drawing on Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality', this talk will argue that an important role for the contemporary university is to resist AI..." https://danmcquillan.org/cpct_abstract.html

Terrifying. "Louis Mosley, the head of Palantir UK, met Keir Starmer that day. “You could see in his eyes that he gets it - the will is there”". Also admits they recruit sociopaths if they're 'brilliant'. NB. Mosley is the grandson of Oswald Mosley. https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/palantir-boss-interview-keir-starmer-gets-ai

We covered a lot in this chat about how decomputing can bridge between the dystopian present and anti-dystopian possible futures
https://alinautrata.substack.com/p/abolish-ai-decomputing-with-dan-mcquillan

"UK minister asks Big Tech to help create ‘prison outside prison’ for criminals" https://archive.ph/dJvNH#selection-1584.0-1584.1
- UK minister making it unintentionally clear that big tech is already carceral by making it impossible for any of us to satisfy our needs without surveillance & control

The fallout of the Fraud, Error and Recovery Bill's bank scanning & automated deductions will be a cross between the Horizon IT scandal and Australia's Robodebt scandal https://archive.ph/e6wny. I predicted AI's role more than a year ago https://archive.ph/flYGv

I guess they call them 'reasoning models' because 'serial confabulation models with accrued inference costs' wasn't quite as catchy...

I guess they call them 'reasoning models' because 'serial confabulation models with accrued inference costs' wasn't quite as catchy...

V interesting interview on @acidhorizonpod with the author of 'Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising'. Lots on workers' councils, as well as the expansion from worker's inquiry to 'struggle inquiry' and 'technical inquiry' https://podcastaddict.com/acid-horizon/episode/197713628

@Weizenbaum_Institut @parismarx @Rainer_Rehak @WZB_Berlin @udk_berlin_ @freieuniversitaet @HumboldtUni @tuberlin @unipotsdam @FraunhoferFOKUS it's a resource hungry vector for a transformational nihilism that maps closely to Ernst Jünger's 'total mobilisation' (I have a forthcoming chapter on this)

This call to 'Abolish Privacy' by @malteengeler and others looks like a much-needed broadside against privacy as an "inherently exclusionary liberal entitlement inextricably linked to property, racial oppression, sexual control and class segregation" https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13671/11977

Well, well, well: Meta is building facial recognition tech for its Ray-Ban smart glasses. Incredible about-face when last year a Meta spokesperson lost their shit at me for reporting students had married facial recognition to the glasses. My comms with Meta here: https://www.404media.co/well-well-well-meta-to-add-facial-recognition-to-glasses-after-all/

Looking forward to a chat today about 'Resisting AI' and the need for decomputing with the very convivial-sounding Reading Group for Hopeful Technologists https://lu.ma/jrditlbj

@codebeard that's a great title. (i often feel the need for a guide to humans myself).