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If you can replace *coders* with AI, who *cant* you replace with AI? Firing coders is an *ad* for AI. Which brings me to AI *art*. AI art – or "art" – is also an ad for AI, but it's not part of AI's business model.

The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI

pluralistic.net

We are attempting to provide tentative situations that may be manufactured by the activities of the present. For without any clear body whose responsibility it is to measure, evaluate, and interrogate the effects of the world today on the people of tomorrow, the burden falls on us.

Vital Signals

Ken MacLeod, Simon Ings, Geoff Ryman, Jule Owen, Frances Gow, Tim Maughan, David Gullen, Dan O'...

In the societies of control, on the other hand, what is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a *password*, while on the other hand the disciplinary societies are regulated by *watchwords* (as much from the point of view of integration as from that of resistance).

Postscript on the Societies of Control

Gilles Deleuze

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