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If you think, however, that the problem of artificial intelligence—and technology under capitalism more generally—is that it has been beholden to the military-industrial complex from the start and serves to concentrate power, a few questions make a good start: How should we develop artificial intelligence, how should it be funded, how should computational resources be distributed, how should various technologies and the means of producing them be owned? Narayanan and Kapoor seem to believe that the main problem is hype. Whether they realize it or not, that’s a form of snake oil, too.
AI Scams Are the Point
Edward Ongweso Jr.
The “online” we experience today is the outcome of the Silicon Valley worldview, what Maria Farrell calls a [personality disorder](https://crookedtimber.org/2023/11/15/silicon-valleys-worldview-is-not-just-an-ideology-its-a-personality-disorder/) : the internet is a surveilled, controlled, corporate space ruled by algorithms and the cancerous growth urge that fuels them. Scale is ascendant. Love is not.
Marc Andreessen Is Right – Love Doesn’t Scale
Mark Hurst
Once the 'bourgeois revolution' had cleared the ground of awkward obstacles like the peasantry, the artisans, common land, local cultures and traditions, family and home life, a sense of history and mutual obligation, and religions which preached against wealth and wordly power, then the captains and priests of the Machine could get on with the work they were made for, the work of our time, the holy effort to which all human will, skill and energy is now bent: making money.
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