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   Ethan Marcotte (beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 01:22:20 JST Ethan Marcotte

   This is good:

   “I think we should shed the idea that [‘artificial intelligence’] is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power.”

   https://ali-alkhatib.com/blog/defining-ai

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     Ed Summers (edsu@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 01:22:18 JST Ed Summers

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     @beep the next sentence is a banger too:

     > AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power.

     I wish more developers thought about how they were binding systems together when they integrated ML models and AI services into their software. But maybe they are, and its their managers who are not.

     This is a good reminder for me to read your book!

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     Ethan Marcotte (beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 01:22:19 JST Ethan Marcotte

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     This is, of course, something that workers across the labor movement have been *keenly* aware of since day one. (It’s even part of my book’s closing argument!) I just really loved the framing here, which I thought was VERY sharp.

     alcinnz repeated this.