"It's not that A.I. are going to automate whatever, it's the social automatism that goes with them"

I recently finished reading Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence by Sam MacQuillan. It’s an important book that sets out a vision for restructuring AI according to principles of mutual aid and solidarity (and a kind of revived cybernetics?).

I came across is through a Trashfuture episode back in April - audio clip attached.

Worthwhile for anyone who wants to think beyond what is, to what could be.


Interview with a McKinsey whistleblower

An interesting interview with a former McKinsey consultant about what it’s like to use spreadsheets to further human misery overcast.fm/+Fd_yzr4a…

Based on this article The Nation www.thenation.com/article/s…