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The Faustian bargain of the digital age—free or cheap digital conveniences in exchange for our data—was only ever explained to us after it was already a done deal. And it represents an enormous and radical shift not only in how we live but also, far more importantly, in what our lives are for. We are all mine sites now, data mine sites, and despite the intimacy and import of what is being mined, the mining process remains utterly obscure and the mine operators wholly unaccountable.
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
I think it makes sense that people are looking back wistfully to a time before the natural world started dying, before our shared cultural forms degraded into mass marketing and before our cities and towns became anonymous employment hubs.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
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