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The Insecurity Machine
This means that our current capitalist system is set up less to meet and fulfill our current needs than it is to generate new ones, which, of course, can only be met through additional consumption—consumption of new lifestyles, experiences, products, upgrades, and apps with features we suddenly can’t live without.
Astra Taylor • The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (The CBC Massey Lectures)
. It’s easily argued that AI is both a byproduct and an accelerator of capitalism. If this is the case, then is a fear of AI simply a fear of capitalism? It’s certainly easier to imagine life without the widespread use of AI than it is to imagine life outside of capitalism, because a lot more of us have experienced it firsthand.
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And AI’s semivisible, infrastructural role in exploiting precarious labor (Uber’s nifty algorithm for suppressing driver wages), landlordism (RealPage’s widely used rent-hiking software), and neocolonial war (Israel’s high-tech civilian-bombing gadgetry) may already be too entrenched to stop. But professional readers and writers: We retain some... See more