#Quotes:

Mandy Brown: "One of the questions I always ask of stories is how they work. Who do they serve? Who benefits?"

Dan McQuillan: "The hierarchy of intelligence, which comes automatically with the concept of #AGI, merges with the idea that such a hierarchy already exists in humans. This belief is shared by those AI experts who welcome AGI and those who rail against it in apocalyptic terms; the latter simply fear that they will lose their superior status to a machine. On a pragmatic level, the notion of a natural hierarchy of #intelligence isn’t a problem for engineering and business elites as it provides a rationale for their privilege, but the historical significance of this perspective is the way it has been deployed to legitimize oppressive social and political orders."

― Dan #McQuillan, writing in his book "Resisting AI", cited by Mandy Brown @aworkinglibrary at https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/smoke-screen