mapping the crazy AI world
The rise of generative artificial intelligence, as both a practical technology and a popular obsession, crystallises Big Tech’s cultural takeover. AI turns reading and writing into automated industrial routines, optimised for speed and efficiency. It instrumentalises intellect, allows the critical and creative work of the mind to be outsourced to... See more
How Big Tech killed literary culture
existential dilemma, or the undercurrent of confusion and fear that accompanies living in a vast world where everything is impermanent.
Brad Stulberg • Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You
- Whatever it ends up doing, I interpret AI as intended to be a class weapon against credentialed, skilled, and cognitive workers.
- Tech advances are, in fact, changing the “relations of production.” It’s proletarianizing new types of work.
- This mayheighten class struggle again, as it creates more proletarianized workers who self-consciously organize
Questions Concerning Technology; Arendt, 50 years later; Ukraine's Agony
What if the questions were instead: What kinds of labor markets are being designed around AI? What is shaping the choices about adoption? Who has bargaining power in those decisions? How will the value created by as yet unfounded promises of productivity growth be distributed? Who has power and how is it wielded to promote certain interests and... See more
We should all be Luddites | Brookings
As artificial intelligence reconfigures every dimension of our societies—from labor markets to classrooms to newsrooms—we should remember the Luddites. Not as caricatures, but in the original sense: People who refuse to accept that the deployment of new technology should be dictated unilaterally by corporations or in cahoots with the government,... See more
We should all be Luddites | Brookings
“Most major technological innovations come into the world like electric arc lighting—wondrous, challenging, sometimes dangerous, always raw and imperfect,” Goldfarb and Kirsch write in Bubbles . “Inventors, entrepreneurs, investors, regulators, and customers struggle to figure out what the technology can do, how to organize its production and... See more
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
AI and the Total Destruction of Trust
jphilll.com
intentional friction keeps my thinking sharp and ensures that when I do engage with automation, I do so from a place of genuine understanding and deliberate choice.
every.to • In the AI Age, Making Things Difficult Is Deliberate
the pedagogical value of a writing assignment doesn’t lie in the tangible product of the work — the paper that gets handed in at the assignment’s end. It lies in the work itself: the critical reading of source materials, the synthesis of evidence and ideas, the formulation of a thesis and an argument, and the expression of thought in a coherent... See more