The enshittification of the future: "Instead of sci-fi futures, what we get is the return of 19th-century industrial relations and the dissolution of post-war social contracts"

AI is intensifying existing necropolitics, the term used by Cameroonian political theorist Achille Mbembe to refer to the use of social and political power to dictate how some people may live and how some must die, and we urgently need to resist that.

Excellent piece by Dan McQuillan from mid-2023 on how the proven harms of AI are forever being traded off against promises of future usefulness.

Predicted benefits, proven harms: How AI’s algorithmic violence emerged from our own social matrix - The Sociological Review