What a marvel!
Let’s hope no semiologist gets hurt reading this piece :)

Art is becoming increasingly essential in asserting our cultural autonomy against a technological determinism that, more often than not, exists solely in the minds of those who take the Gartner Hype Cycle as gospel and the marketing of major consulting firms as sacred writ.

The space of critique is our salvation.
The future is a space for self-determination.

[Link to article: Meet the Artist Using Ritual Magic to Trap Self-Driving Cars – Vice]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-artist-using-ritual-magic-to-trap-self-driving-cars-2/

#ArtAsResistance #CriticalDesign #TechnologicalDeterminism #CulturalAutonomy #SpeculativeArt #AIArt #TechCriticism #FutureIsNow #SelfDrivingCars #RitualMagic #ContemporaryArt #AutonomyVsAutomation #DigitalCulture #PostDigitalArt

Today I woke up thinking: of all the tech Ive learned, hacked up, botched, worked with, watched being innovated, done evaluation studies on, made money with, enjoyed... I have never seen a technology elicit so much anger as Gen AI & LLMs. So much anger and frustration. So much, in so many places.

#ai #GenAI #llm #TechnologicalDeterminism #Datasociety #academicchatter

In my opening keynote for the Ada Symposium 2024, I conclusively and decisively argued that what we call 'A.I' is in fact a pet rock.

I also argued some other things.

https://vimeo.com/952557065

(lecture starts at 3:35)

#ai #ml #technologicaldeterminism

https://www.hegemonaco.com/p/when-agi-goes-wrong-who-pays-the/

#TrustworthyAI #AIEthics #AIGovernance #AILiability #TechnologicalDeterminism #AlgorithmicAccountability #AIRegulation #AITransparency #AIRiskAssessment #AlgorithmicBias #AIFairness #AIJustice #CleanThinking #HR6580 #AINowInstitute #TristanHarris

‘Fervent, overly determined techno-optimism has much in common with the ideation of conspiracy theories relating to advanced technologies. In fact, advocates of techno-optimist futures, and proponents of conspiracy theories such as the supposed causal relationship between 5G and COVID-19, share common cognitive, dispositional and contextual characteristics.'

#GenAI
#EdTech
#AIinEdu
#Education
#GenerativeAI
#TechnoOptimism
#ConspiracyTheories
#TechnologicalDeterminism

https://matthewmoran.online/2024/04/14/on-the-commonalities-between-techno-optimism-and-conspiracy-theory-ideation/

'Technological determinism presupposes that positive economic and socio-political change invariably springs from the transfer of advanced technologies to technologically under-developed societies — and it demands unquestioning compliance and deference on the part of these societies.'

https://matthewmoran.online/2024/03/28/techno-optimism-perverted-histories-and-stolen-futures/

#AI
#Innovation
#Technology
#ArtificialIntelligence
#ExtractiveCapitalism
#RegenerativeFutures
#TechnologicalDeterminism

This elegy to Twitter is fine but I *hate* the #TechnologicalDeterminism & #MoralPanic of the subhed:
about what Twitter did to us vs. what we did with Twitter. That is how media analyse the net & us. 1/

What Was Twitter, Anyway?
Whether the platform is dying or not, it’s time to reckon with how exactly it broke our brains.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/magazine/twitter-dying.html?smid=tw-share