Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)1d ago

Veatch: “What was really surprising to me during my initial dive into all of this was how, when you look at the question of superintelligence as a documentarian or journalist, it doesn’t take long before you smack your forehead into the low doorframe of race science, because it’s baked into this technology”

I love this metaphor because of how it speaks to the contortions people (here: AI boosters) go through to ignore/pretend not to notice the race science.

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/897923/ghost-in-the-machine-valerie-veatch-interview

The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics

Ghost in the Machine — out on Kinema March 26th — director Valeria Veatch speaks with The Verge about gen AI’s roots in eugenics.

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@emilymbender After ad-tech and social media, AI will wind up as the next frontier in tech that dictates you how to think.
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@emilymbender The worrisome part is that that is probably more then enough incentive to finance the shenanigans.

Best of all, contrary to social media, people will pay to get indoctrinated.

Moguls are having a field day.