I'm baffled about #AI doomerism. AI will make us into slaves, will decide our future...? To me this sounds like a distraction from the fact that in capitalism I am already a slave, with no options, no freedom, where bureaucratically ordered and implemented practical constraints serve the upholding of judicial peace and guarantee of ownership. Perhaps it's only affluent people who now start to tremble about the prospects of #AI, people who in capitalism always enjoyed the illusion of agency, an illusion covered by a magically influx of prosperity and luxury. I never joined these comforts (and I wonder if I ever had the chance or opportunity to do so) and so I don't believe in agency and some divine right of ownership and the exercise of practical constraints onto others. But that's just me, and I am not fearing AI. Because for 500 years we already lived in a world that is AI, only embodied in different forms than semiconductors and globalised data transfer.

#talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten