Yeah, the American political landscape is utterly unfit to deal with AI. There’s two parties but both of them are big time into neoliberalism over regulation. And then the Republicans have the added difficulty of AI being a modern thing, but since they’re made up of conservatives plus fascists, they’re against modernism. They should be against it on ideological grounds. Yet AI is pushed by their rich peer group and those do big money with it. And it’s a great tool for repression, works top-down and can be tuned to do a lot of nefarious stuff so they’re also for AI.
They should be against it on ideological grounds.
https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/
Oh wow, pretty extensive take on it. Thanks! Yes, the postmodern take on it is a bit weird. Especially the tech-bro part. I have no clue why dressing badly is a thing to do. The original nazis had fashionable uniforms designed by Hugo Boss. Seems the approach towards asthetics doesn’t entirely translate to postmodern fascism fanboys.
And all the fake stuff… yeah pretty unfortunate how this is exactly what the malicious people need and it’ll empower them. Some people have proposed to use AI for education and progress, but the unfortunate reality is, as is, it’s just a 1000 times better at doing the opposite.
You just made me think of the They Might Be Giants lyric, “🎶🎵and the fascists have the outfits, but I don’t care for the outfits. What I care about is music, and the communists have the music.🎵🎶”.
education
If one is against democracy, then that is a feature not a bug.
https://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/democracy/relationship-between-democracy-and-education/76841
