FAST & FURIOUS TECHNO-FEUDALISM: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE DEATH OF HUMAN AGENCY

“AI is not revolutionary. It is a way of portraying the control of powerful people over society’s material resources as rational, a way to reframe social and economic hierarchy as progress. We need to stop asking what we are going to do about AI and start asking why a few private individuals already hold so much power over the rest of us.” R.H. Lossin & Jason Resnikoff

“I hope it’s going to be a lot harder to have these cul-de-sac conversations where terms like ‘ethics’ and ‘AI for good’ have been so completely denatured of any actual meaning…let’s actually look at who’s running the levers of these systems. That means shifting away from just focusing on things like ethical principles to talking about power…. In other words, how do we make this a far deeper democratic conversation around how these systems are already influencing the lives of billions of people in primarily unaccountable ways that live outside of regulation and democratic oversight?” Kate Crawford

“Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Instead of helping to address our current crises, AI causes divisions that limit people’s life chances, and even suggests fascistic solutions to social problems.” Dan McQuillan

“The same technologies that might make billions of people economically irrelevant might also make them easier to monitor and control…. Even if some societies remain ostensibly…