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Yet we all know (or should know) that the choices available to us are hardly random. They radically expand and contract based on which countries we happened to be born into, which bodies, which genders, which races, which families. It’s not only individual lives that hold doppelganger potentialities—so, too, do whole societies.
The latest wave of AI has come to prominence in the period following the 2008 financial crash, and its ability to optimize rationing at scale readily fits in with austerity policies based on scarcity.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
This is not our world with trees in it. It’s a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
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