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Steve Bannon’s strategy to [“flood the zone with shit”](https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/16/media/steve-bannon-reliable-sources/index.html), powered by AI-driven virality, gave the evangelicals everything they needed to move one step closer to Judgment Day.
Emily F. Gorcenski
Norman Packard
The term serves to obscure that diversity, however, so the conversation becomes clearer if one speaks in terms of “automation” rather than “AI” and looks at precisely what is being automated.
The AI Con
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
Of course, this resembles the notorious “end of theory” approach that came with the emergence of “Big Data,” which insisted that explanations and interpretations were superfluous to acting on correlations — that asking why any particular correlation existed was a pointless and possibly pretentious question. (Causality is just post hoc rationalization for a complex reality we will never really understand but can nonetheless still operate.)
Smell the Glove Is Here
Rob Horning
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