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Finally read this piece: “‘There’s a narcissism that reemerges in the AI dream that we are going to prove that everything we thought was distinctively human can actually be accomplished by machines + accomplished better,” Judith Butler [told me]. ‘Or that human potential — that’s the fascist idea — human potential is more fully actualized with AI than without it.’ The AI dream is ‘governed by the perfectibility thesis, + that’s where we see a fascist form of the human.’” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html