Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Mar 21

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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I watched Taylor Lorenz’s hour long discourse on the culture of tech bros, which I think applies more widely to most billionaires. She called them an extinction cult. “ conservative “ economic ideology legitimizes & valorizes dark triad personality traits. Businesses deliberately dehumanize everyone, customers, employees. they don’t respect the boundaries people demand.

Their goal is to replace humanity. That one on its own explains indifference or even worse

Mar 22 at 9:21amWeb