Here's the full version of 'Labour's AI Action Plan - a gift to the far right'

Labour's AI Action Plan - a gift to the far right

. Why an obsession with 'growth' is already paving the way for environmental harms and DOGE-like, public service-smashing eugenics here in the UK, and what we can do about it.

Non-critical embrace of LLM 'reasoning' models is the scholasticism of idiots.

Happy to be quoted in 'Is AI Worth It? A Growing Number of Artificial Intelligence Skeptics Is Raising Doubts About a Utopian Future' https://archive.ph/gjmCY. The mag is delivered to SF's most exclusive neighborhoods - hope some VC chokes on their Chai Latte while reading it.

Australian government: 'AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information'.

Crikey

AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds

A test of AI for Australia's corporate regulator found that the technology might actually make more work for people, not less.

UK government: 'Great, we'll use it to match medical conditions for Employment and Support Allowance claims!':

GOV.UK

DWP: Employment and Support Allowance Online Medical Matching

A tool which helps Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) agents match medical conditions for ESA claims.

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AI weaponisation is dangerous not because AI is all-powerful but exactly because AI is a bit crap. It's doesn't deliver for socially useful production but it's great for violent destruction where collateral damage (false positives/confabulation) is seen as a bonus.

Big tech is Ransomware. They've stolen all our data and hold all our vital services in the Cloud and at their mercy. We keep paying, or they pull the plug on society. Now is the time for #decomputing

I was interviewed by Diyar Saraçoğlu, translator of 'Yapay Zekâya Direnmek' (the Turkish edition of ‘Resisting AI’), for their series on The Political Construction of Artificial Intelligence

Interview with Diyar Saraçoğlu

The problem is that this isn't confined to LinkedIn-slop. Musk's DOGE minions are doing exactly the same thing inside federal agencies. AI won't give a useful answer to a factual question, but it'll still give an answer no matter how conspiratorial or delusional the question is.

There is no more tech policy, only technopolitics. The liberal rules-based order has past & power is uninterested in performing reforms. Advocating tech sustainability, regulation and inclusion makes us the enemy within, and we need to focus on movement building and resistance.

If you needed any proof that 'public interest AI' is yet another Trojan Horse for big tech and liberal technocracy, it's this announcement.

Fortune

France, tech companies endow new $400 million foundation for public interest AI | Fortune

Current AI will fund projects around public datasets, open source AI, and public accountability for AI systems