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A move to AI systems will reproduce this kind of racial discrimination at an industrial scale, as AI not only ingests [the racism embedded in its training data](https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Cliff-Sarans-Enterprise-blog/How-racist-bias-is-embedded-in-software-systems) but projects it through reductive classifications and exclusions.
AI Will Create a Thousand Post Office Scandals
Dan McQuillan
Jewish capitalism was a mythic structure, a bogeyman, with a familiar purpose: “Big business,”24 Leon wrote, “endeavored to divert and control the anti-capitalist hatred of the masses for its own exclusive profit.” Very much as the internationally networked Bannonite right rages at “globalists” to divert popular rage away from capitalism as a system and toward an imaginary cabal that can be cut out, leaving the structures that created and protect the global billionaire class intact.
There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
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