I wonder if the European Commission's insistence on calling data centres 'AI factories' is a deliberate attempt to encourage Luddism and machine breaking? 🔨 (Think of the alternative social benefits that could be delivered with €2.6 billion...).

In conversation with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia of The Philosopher journal as part of their 'AI and the Digital' series, covering reform, resistance, fascist resonances, (dis)passionate applications, system contamination and path dependency.

If you think generative AI should be integrated into the classroom then you also think management consultancies should determine the future for higher education. Both are ethics-free forms of machinic optimisation based on reductive abstractions that strip out important context and relationships.

'Health minister says UK should cash in on NHS patient data - Zubir Ahmed says new central service for medical datasets should be leveraged for ‘benefit of Treasury coffers''

Client Challenge

- the State emulating social media's surveillance-to-monetisation pipeline.

My speaker notes & slides from today's panel on 'Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education', co-organised with the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU). The full recording, slides and resources will be available soon via the CJUU site.

Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education

Getting p-r-e-t-t-y tired of all the 'anthropologists' and 'critical designers' who are hopping on a human-centred-AI funding train while acting as the participation-washing front end for violent epistemologies

The calls to action from the parents: 1. Ban AI tools into the classroom, protect students and teachers from de-skilling 2. Resist not only direct financial relationships or contracts with AI providers, but any training they might offer.

Neighborhood View

Digital future or risk to critical thinking skills? 5 takeaways as Malden crafts AI strategy for its schools - Neighborhood View

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TFW your publisher sends you an email encouraging you to opt-in to licensing your work to AI developers, and when the book in question is titled 'Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence'🤦‍♂️

The only solution to AI harms offered by the Irish Electoral Commission and Coimisiún na Meán (media regulator) yesterday was 'education' to which my response was "It's education that's under attack from AI right now!"

Oireachtas committees video archive

Topic: Artificial Intelligence, Truth and Democracy Part 1

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I wrote 'ChatGPT Is a Bullshit Generator Waging Class War' in Feb 2023 i.e. 2 months after it was released. With the exception of a focus on datacentres, I'm not sure how far critique has advanced. We need a more radical vision of our alternatives ✊

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ChatGPT Is a Bullshit Generator Waging Class War

ChatGPT isn't really new but simply an iteration of the class war that's been waged since the start of the industrial revolution.