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New Policy & governance Analysis 21h ago
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socialist case against AI nationalization

The Socialist Case Against Nationalizing AI

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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

“"AI is, above all else, a weapon of class war from above. Whether it’s the state that wields it or corporations does little to change that fact." A nice corrective in Jacobin by @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-n...”

“jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-n... “AI is a machine that takes good jobs and makes them precarious. It’s a machine for turning stable employment into gig work””

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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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Primary source jacobin.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 16d ago
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Ai distillation china

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Mar Hicks Hagen Blix Veni Kunche

“Please tell me again how you using all our data, books, etc to train your models is fine, but someone else using the output of your models to train theirs is a heinous crime”

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Hagen Blix: Please tell me again how you using all our data, books, etc to train your models is fine, but someone else using the output of your models to train theirs is a heinous crime
Hagen Blix: "Oh, but look, we did put it in the language of nationalism" - always the same shit
Abstract Tesseract: This is always fun (/s) for me when I'm talking to people about "AI" because I am overall extremely critical of states both in general and specific, but also of people being racist and hypocritical
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Developing AI field signal Analysis 1d ago
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Jacobin AI nationalization essays

Everybody Should Welcome Nationalizing AI

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Hypervisible Hagen Blix René Walter

“Surprised they now have 3 articles on this within just a few days, all in agreement with Bernie's proposal (tho Cecilia Rikap's is less uncritical than the other two) jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-p... jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-b...”

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Developing AI field signal Analysis 1d 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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Primary source commonnotions.org ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 9d ago
Why We Fear AI book essay

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

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Luke Stark Hagen Blix

“Great essay, wish I would have seen this a lot earlier! I think we share a lot of perspective - Ingeborg Glimmer and I actually start our whole book with the question of why people might like to hear narratives like that. Might be interesting to you, would …”

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Henry Farrell: If LLMs are a "social technology" akin to a market, it might be interesting to bring Marx into the mix to think about how markets aren't just information processors but the means by which relations…
Eryk Salvaggio: Recommend: www.upress.umn.edu/978151792167...
Hagen Blix: One of the reasons we wrote our book was that these mystifications reappear in the narratives about AI, too - but perhaps in ways that can actually make it easier to demystify them, by linking them…
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Primary source commonnotions.org ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 9d ago
AI speed-accuracy tradeoffs deskilling essay

Does AI Work? Some Thoughts on Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs, AI, and Deskilling

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Hagen Blix

“Basically. We should think of AI as a bifurcation machine - been writing about this for a while”

3 experts discussed this · 14 posts
Amy Hoy: that’s not vibe coding that’s no different than outsourcing to another person but companies already refused to go slow enough to do proper code review
Amy Hoy: unfortunately software quality was already on a major downswing due to corporate culture changes starting several years ago, and an accelerant is an accelerant
Amy Hoy: nobody will like this but the massive proliferation of enormous front end frameworks was a canary in the coal mine the tool & framework churn outside of web dev has also been horrendous
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Primary source hagenblix.github.io ↗
Established Culture, work & education Analysis 9d ago
Marxist analysis of AI essay

What Marx Can Tell Us About Artificial Intelligence

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Hagen Blix

“"Thousands of teachers may be replaced by AI, but the demand for really good teachers, who can beat AI, will increase." Is this the state of academic Marxism now? When we get industrialized production, the demand for artisanal production goes up? What?”

Primary source jacobin.com ↗
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3 experts · 6 posts · 1d ago
SE Gyges Hagen Blix Lana Sinapayen
Hagen Blix: I'd be quite curious about huggingface's description of this (they're generally less comfortable in the "unreliable narrator" territory)
SE Gyges: so as it happens i think every doomer prophesy is wrong but it's true that if you just make them hill climb blindly you get results like this
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3 experts · 8 posts · 10d ago
Hypervisible Hagen Blix Amy Hoy
Hagen Blix: Pretty unfathomable that Bernie Sanders' plan about AI, right now, is to basically be like "let's give it to the president"
Hypervisible : Pretty unfathomable that Bernie Sanders' plan about AI, right now, is to basically be like "let's give it to the president"
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