BlogFlockWith the backlash against AI escalating dramatically, I can’t imagine a better time to consider the history of what the scholar Thomas Dekeyser terms the “techno-negative.” Dekeyser has just published a new book on the subject, titled, fittingly, Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine, with the…
Greetings all. I’m looking for a part-time podcast producer for a forthcoming weekly BLOOD IN THE MACHINE show, and I thought I’d start by reaching out here.
The ideal partner here will be someone with
Audio production experience (and preferably video, too)
Knowledge of the tech world, the AI industry,…
On the morning of Friday, April 10th, a 20 year-old Texas man named Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama was arrested for allegedly throwing a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s mansion on Russian Hill in San Francisco. Less than two days later, police arrested 25 year-old Amanda Tom and 23 year-old Muhamad Tarik…
Everything about the Iran War has been horrific, but Trump’s now-infamous threat, issued on Truth Social, that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” signaled a distinct escalation. A threat of genocide, issued by a sitting US president, will do that.
That threat did…
Tech executives have said a lot of wild things over the past few years to justify all the money they’re plowing into generative AI and the effort to force us all to use it. They’ve warned that AI could wipe us all out, that we’d have to geoengineer the…
The past few months have been slow for reading on my part. I feel like I have a decent excuse though: I was too busy writing a book to be keeping up with reading very many of them. Now that it’s pretty well sorted though, I’m hoping that’s about to…
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made some waves when they proposed a nationwide moratorium on data center construction. It’s not a subtle policy idea, and it’s not meant to be. “We cannot sit back and allow a handful of billionaire Big Tech oligarchs to make decisions that will reshape our…
The academic AI critic is often either bored or angry. Bored because everyone keeps saying the same things, or angry because all the same things…
One of the great ironies of the AI age, such as it is, is that it wound up looking like shit. When Artificial Intelligence finally arrived, with all of its fearsome technological sophistication, it was presumed that it would at least look cool as it surveilled, subverted, or enslaved us.…
The first basic income program for workers who have lost pay, jobs, or opportunities to AI began sending out its first funds this week. The program is run by the AI Commons Project, which it’s administering what it calls the AI Dividend: a no-strings payment of $1,000 a month…
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