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What we call artificial intelligence (Pasquinelli's "eye of the master") lends itself towards intensifying capitalist control over labor and social relations, innovating new forms of discipline and surveillance, and creating new relations that preserve the exploitation necessary to keep things chugging along. Automation doesn't replace workers but "multiplies and governs them anew." And so we are inundated with Potemkin AI (software that relies heavily on human labor but pretends to be powered by sophisticated software).

AI, Slavery, Surveillance, and Capitalism

Substack

The Founder comes to personally congratulate us on our accomplishments. I’ve never seen him in person before. He is smaller, frailer than I had imagined. But his skull is on fire. When he speaks, flames spew from his lips. The room is drawn to him.

Terraform

Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans

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.

Doppelganger

Naomi Klein

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