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For some time now, we have increasingly accepted the idea that we are not the kind of people who can act. This isn’t a failure of will any more than an individual depressed person can ‘snap themselves out of it’ by ‘pulling their socks up’.
Good for Nothing - Mark Fisher
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Data Grab: The new Colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back Kindle Edition
by Ulises A. Mejias (Author), Nick Couldry (Author)
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So, as far as AI is concerned, we need to be aware of both dynamics: the forms of crisis under which AI emerges and for which it is seen as a potential solution, and the aspirations of elites to use AI as a way to maintain existing political and cultural privilege.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
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