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Dan McQuillan

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AI maths meets mafia: "I said if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with what happened. The reply was “Why would you ruin your career?” I replied that I'm an academic, & asked why he thought going public would ruin my career" cims.nyu.edu/~tristan…

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Very late notice, but I'll be doing an informal talk and discussion for SPINE (Speculative Inquiry into Ethics) tomorrow on 'AI, Decomputing and its Discontents'. Open registration events.teams.microsoft.com/event/efc27d...

Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams events.teams.microsoft.com
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  • Teams live events retire in July 2026; already-scheduled events are supported through February 28, 2027.
  • As of April 1, 2026, some Teams Premium features moved to Teams Enterprise, priced at $8.55/user/month annually.
  • Town halls support up to 3,000 interactive attendees, or 100,000 with an Attendee Capacity Pack add-on license.
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Virtual Assembly of the Critical AI Network, 27th-29th May, online. 27 amazing talks + 3 keynotes + plenary discussions. AI/Education, AI/Law+Politics, AI/Environment. Registration & network sign-up: cpct.uk/2026/05/09/p... Full programme: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

PROGRAMME: “How do we break something that is already broken?” Virtual Assembly of the Critical AI Network, CPCT (27-29 May, 2026; online) cpct.uk
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If you're interested in this talk but can't make it today, I'll be re-hashing a version with more emphasis on care services for the Newcastle Youth Studies seminar tomorrow (Wednesday) at 9am GMT. Registration here www.eventbrite.com.au/e/from-resis...

From Resisting AI to Decomputing eventbrite.com.au
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Book launch for 'AI, Infrastructures and Sustainability' on Wed 2nd; register for the livestream spui25.nl/programma/ai... with eds Anne Mollen & Fieke Jansen and authors Patrick Brodie, Gerwin van Schie & myself. The book is open access & downloadable from link.springer.com/b…

spui25.nl
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New preprint from me: 'Beyond AI: Infrastructuring the Common Good'. The paper treats AI as diagnostic of deeper contradictions, and argues that convivial practice can reclaim vital systems from the collapse of the technopolitical regime. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Beyond AI: Infrastructuring the Common Good doi.org
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  • Dan McQuillan's new Zenodo preprint reframes AI as 'diagnostic of deeper contradictions,' treating it as symptom rather than the central object of critique.
  • The paper proposes 'decomputing,' a degrowth-framed programme of deautomatisation, people's councils, and an ethics of care.
  • Funders acknowledged include the ESRC, the University of Bristol's Centre for Sociodigital Futures, and the AHRC BRAID programme.
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Book launch for 'AI, Infrastructures and Sustainability' on Wed 2nd; register for the livestream spui25.nl/programma/ai... with eds Anne Mollen & Fieke Jansen and authors Patrick Brodie, Gerwin van Schie & myself. The book is open access & downloadable from link.springer.com/b…

AI Infrastructures and Sustainability link.springer.com
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  • Palgrave Macmillan released 'AI Infrastructures and Sustainability,' an open-access, sixteen-chapter volume edited by Mollen, Jansen, Kannengießer and Velkova, in March 2026.
  • The editors argue AI sustainability spans environmental impacts, economic concentration and social justice, not just per-model efficiency.
  • Chapters follow AI from Amazonian mining and Fortaleza's cloud hub to Swedish energy grids, Yandex reporting and Jansen and ten Oever's 'scarcity approach' to compute.
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AlphaFold was always bait-and-switch; now Google confirms it. A hyper-narrow bioinformatrics model with actual science bolted on whose guesses can be experimentally checked was never a licence for socially-applied slop at scale, but it's done its job. Effort transferred to LLMs.

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Where is the university ethics committee that has stepped up to the plate and said "There's no ethical way to use Generative AI"?

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Fisher/Jameson said "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism". And yet, that act of imagining alternatives is urgent; if AI tells us nothing else, it tells us that capitalism is actively imagining the end of us.

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It's bizarre that 'transparency' remains part of Responsible AI narratives. This is the most mask-off moment in decades; the technopolitical hegemony is very transparent about the fact that we & the rest of the biosphere are disposable accessories to their desire for domination.

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Hyperscalers: "We're investing more than $1 trillion in AI capital investment". Smug AI adopter: "I'm completely in charge, I just use it for brainstorming ideas". AI isn't a consumer toy, it's a push for systemic transformation that amps up alienation and climate harm.☣️

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AI makes being average at [faking] any skill available to everyone [until inference prices increase]. If you take time to be good at what you do [someone will train agentic AI to imitate you] & you won't have to worry about being replaced [until your boss chooses agentic AI].

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Breaking: AI companies announce that hyperscale datacentres will switch to a behind-the-meter power supply based on burning books. As the same books have already been sliced & scanned for model training, the companies describe this a sustainable closed loop. 📚🔥☠️

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Advocating for "AI sovereignty" is another way to call for a war economy.

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Seems like agentic AI's capacity to really f*ck things up isn't limited to deleting your personal $HOME directory.

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FAccT and its predecessor FAT/ML are very poorly acronymed gatherings, as the point of their algorithmic objects of study is, in a specific technopolitical sense, to drain Fairness, distance Accountability and misdirect Transparency.

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