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Written by emenel on 2024-12-16 at 16:26

In 1976 Joseph Weizenbaum wrote in the introduction to Computer Power and Human Reason that computers came along just in time to save western capitalism from collapsing under its own complexity. Computation became popular and took its current form in order to maintain and intensify mid-century capitalism.

So-called "AI" is the same project continuing today. As globalized capitalism faces a number of intractable crises a new "advancement" in computing is trying desperately to rescue the system from all the problems of its own making.

All of the ideals, technologies, and fantasies of society that form the foundation of so-called "AI" are the same ones that founded western capitalism--eugenics, extraction, colonialism, disenfranchisement, and exploitation.

It will fail, not just because it accelerates all these problems faster than it could possible "solve" them, but also because it just plain doesn't work. It will never, and can never, address the problems of globalized capitalism because it's purpose is to find a way to continue and intensify capitalism and the structures of power that currently exist.

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