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It might not be exactly what you’re looking for, but there are already movements that are pushing back against many of the ways in which AI is used to curtail h
by charlescearl 4y ago
It might not be exactly what you’re looking for, but there are already movements that are pushing back against many of the ways in which AI is used to curtail human existence.
That is, people are already organizing against AI as deployed to accelerate modes of domination, control exploitation: workers employed in dataset labeling — particularly displaced people — who are exploited by big tech; tenants rights organizations fighting against use of biometric technologies like facial recognition; those who are organizing to oppose mass serveillance; activists trying to address the use of AI in discriminatory lending, policing; Indigenous activists pushing back against impact of NLP on Native and “low resource” languages.
Marx talks briefly about the potential benefits and harms of automatons — ultimately it’s an issue of who gets to control the technology, does power rest in the hands of a few elites or are is it accountable to “everyday” people. You might find this article “The Nonmachinables” https://logicmag.io/distribution/the-nonmachinables/ https://logicmag.io/distribution/the-nonmachinables/
relevant.
To sum up, a lot is happening and there’s a lot of potential solidarity if we look beyond the “ML engineer” class bubble.