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Established Policy & governance Analysis 6d ago
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socialist case against AI nationalization

The Socialist Case Against Nationalizing AI

9 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Alex Hanna Juan Diego Rodriguez Hypervisible Paris Marx Ali Alkhatib 🌶 David Gray Widder Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Hagen Blix +1
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“"When we hear AI, we shouldn’t fall for the AI peddlers’ narratives of productivity explosions and mass unemployment. We should think of Taylorism, of the myriad ways in which capital centralizes knowledge, measures people, and carves up work in order to ma…”

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Eugene Vinitsky: I think it's reasonable to ask of a research program that purports to automate away all jobs that it provide a positive vision of the future more confident than "hey, maybe we'll "cure" cancer alon…
Eugene Vinitsky: I've been talking about this a lot lately and it just feels like the moral cases in the field are significantly less developed than they should be and it's eating at me a bit
Juan Diego Rodriguez: This eats at me all the time. I don’t know what to do about it
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Developing Culture, work & education Analysis 1d ago
AI as boss not assistant essay

AI is not an assistant – it's your new boss (The Everything App part 2)

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Ali Alkhatib Pavel

“Yeah, it's one of the things Nothing Managers love most about AI: they can completely isolate themselves from all other people”

4 experts discussed this · 11 posts
Pavel: Lots of thinkpieces about how workers should think of "AI agents" as colleagues. Which, sure. I've had colleagues I always avoid because getting them to do anything useful is like pulling teeth, an…
Ali Alkhatib: that colleague who traumatized data workers during their training period, produces deepfakes of unwilling women, has no connection to reality like you or me, and CANNOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES part…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: In my last real “tech” job I was the designated guy who took all of the code the super-prolific “distinguished engineer” generated without any planning and put into production over the weekend, to …
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Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
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Why we fear AI book essay

Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares — Common Notions Press

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Ali Alkhatib Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Hagen Blix

“this piece arguing against nationalizing AI is really good. not surprised! @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg's book was a hit with the reading group when we read it a few months ago”

“I think adopting the "automation" frame is already falling for a bourgeois trap. What this mostly is about is deskilling, and deskilling is not a form to increase productivity, but to cheapen labor and thus shift the total social income form labor to capita…”

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Hagen Blix: See, so much AI stuff is just the subconscious of capital: "What if people didn't have to know things?" "What if we could just automate the realization of value, without input from pesky humans/con…
Hagen Blix: Read all about it here I guess 🤷
Long Lasting Mascot: “What if we have a system that turns everything into paperclips without thinking about why”
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3 experts · 11 posts · 8h ago
Luke Stark Ali Alkhatib Andy Masley
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Luke Stark: Turned this rant into a blog post. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-data-c...
Ali Alkhatib: on point 2, something i don't see proponents grapple with is that the current buildout is absolutely not the totality of data centers meant to be built. there will need to be more (and considerably…
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